How to Use line-item veto in a Sentence
line-item veto
noun-
The governor can strike out portions of the bill through a line-item veto.
— Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021 -
The spending plan then will go to Scott, who has line-item veto power.
— Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Today’s line-item veto debate goes back to Richard Nixon’s battle with Congress.
— Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018 -
Evers can remove parts of their version of the budget using his line-item veto powers.
— Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There’s little evidence that a line-item veto would reduce deficits.
— Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018 -
Brown notified Democratic leaders in the House and Senate of her line-item veto on Tuesday.
— oregonlive, 16 June 2021 -
To attempt to get her way, she line-item vetoed a budget passed in the legislature with broad bipartisan...
— WSJ, 25 Feb. 2020 -
After that, Youngkin can use his line-item veto, and the General Assembly will have to return to reconcile any changes.
— Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
Evers can then reshape it using his line-item veto powers.
— Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2021 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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