How to Use line-item veto in a Sentence
line-item veto
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The governor can strike out portions of the bill through a line-item veto.
—Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
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The spending plan then will go to Scott, who has line-item veto power.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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The group is also trying to negate four of Evers’ line-item vetoes from this year’s budget bill.
—Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 1 Aug. 2019
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Some state governors have a line-item veto; the Supreme Court has held the president can’t exercise one.
—Josh Blackman, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
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In 1997, President Bill Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
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The lawsuit is the result of a single line-item veto Dunleavy made in a season of contentious budget cutting.
—Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
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Today’s line-item veto debate goes back to Richard Nixon’s battle with Congress.
—Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
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Evers can remove parts of their version of the budget using his line-item veto powers.
—Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
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The union argued that the debt ceiling actually amounts to a line-item veto for the president to wield at his own discretion.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
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Teachers, meanwhile, called on Scott to use his line-item veto power to zero out the $67 million set aside for the program to train and arm school employees.
—Brendan Farrington and Gary Fineout, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
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Evers can then make changes with his line-item veto power before signing the two-year spending plan into law.
—Scott Bauer and Harm Venhuizen, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
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There’s little evidence that a line-item veto would reduce deficits.
—Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
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Brown notified Democratic leaders in the House and Senate of her line-item veto on Tuesday.
—oregonlive, 16 June 2021
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To attempt to get her way, she line-item vetoed a budget passed in the legislature with broad bipartisan...
—WSJ, 25 Feb. 2020
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Walker last year used his line-item veto to cut the dividend — a move that the Alaska Supreme Court upheld in a unanimous decision last month.
—Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Sep. 2017
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Since 1998, Congress and presidents of both parties have made halting attempts at restoring the line-item veto.
—David Weigel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
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Evers can then reshape it using his line-item veto powers.
—Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2021
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Scott can't veto individual items in the bill itself, but does have line-item veto power with the budget.
—CBS News, 9 Mar. 2018
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But a future court order, and an old law, could change that The governor has line-item veto authority on budget bills.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2021
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Abbott has even threatened a line-item veto that would deny pay to legislators and their staff members.
—Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 3 June 2021
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Abbott later used his line-item veto to strike a $132 million rehabilitation of the site from the state budget.
—Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 July 2019
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Brown, who wields the power to line-item veto budget bills, unveiled her own 10-point plan on Tuesday with fewer details than her Democratic peers.
—Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
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In signing the budget Thursday morning, DeWine also issued 25 line-item vetoes, most of which were health-care related.
—Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
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The governor has frequently used line-item veto powers to shrink the state budget but has rarely vetoed policy bills.
—James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
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Republicans introduced the tax repeal as a bill to prevent Evers from using his broad line-item veto power to make changes to it, Stroebel said.
—Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
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There was no immediate word on when Snyder, who has line-item veto power on budget bills, would sign the budget bills and announce any vetoes.
—Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
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DeWine could use a line-item veto if the final version of the bill has language that would eliminate municipal broadband networks.
—Cameron Fields, cleveland, 24 June 2021
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Whitmer could use her line-item veto authority to strip the vaccine passport language from the Senate budget bill.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2021
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Under Florida law, the governor can sign the overall bill but use his line-item veto to eliminate the money set aside for arming school staff members.
—Brendan Farrington, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
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The line-item veto would have allowed a president to strike specific spending items in a bill while allowing the rest of the appropriations to become law.
—azcentral, 2 Apr. 2018
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