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04/20/07
That's so Washington
01:08:41 pm, Categories: National News Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, somebody, somewhere, says it better than you possibly could.
From the blog down the street:
Something I have been wondering: Bush is promising to veto any bill sent to him that has a timeline for troop withdrawal. My understanding is that these timelines are non-binding resolutions which have no real force. So, is Bush responding to an empty gesture, with another empty gesture (a veto that isn't needed since the resolution has no real meaning)?
(Steven Davis)
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--R.J. Dickens
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Comment from: James H. Macklin [Visitor] 
The non-binding pull-out resolutions were passed weeks ago. But the latest bills in the Senate and House are regular budget bills and the time-tables would be law to be complied with.
The governors of most states have a line-item veto, they can sign a bill into law, but delete parts.
The President of The United States does not have that power. When Nixon was President, he impounded money in order to keep the budget in control. That was one of the threatened impeachment offenses he did. After he resigned, Congress [and Geralf Ford, the new President passed a new budget law that required the President to actually spend every penny the Congress appropriated.
That resulted in our run-away debt since the exectutive had no power to control the budget unless one of these veto threat battles happens.
The governors of most states have a line-item veto, they can sign a bill into law, but delete parts.
The President of The United States does not have that power. When Nixon was President, he impounded money in order to keep the budget in control. That was one of the threatened impeachment offenses he did. After he resigned, Congress [and Geralf Ford, the new President passed a new budget law that required the President to actually spend every penny the Congress appropriated.
That resulted in our run-away debt since the exectutive had no power to control the budget unless one of these veto threat battles happens.
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