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line-item veto

The power to strike individual provisions from a bill while signing the rest. Most governors have it; the President does not.

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Congress gave the President a line-item veto in 1996, and the Supreme Court struck it down in Clinton v. City of New York (1998) as a violation of the Presentment Clause. Most state constitutions grant governors the power over appropriations, and some allow reducing an amount rather than only striking it.

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