Thursday, December 1, 2011
8:57 AM
Ryan, Dem Rep. Van Hollen back line-item veto legislation
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and fellow Budget Committee member Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., are touting a new approach to the line-item veto for the president in what they’re calling a bipartisan attempt at budget reform.
Van Hollen said it’s different from line-item legislation lawmakers passed in the 1990s that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. Under this version, anything the president line item vetoed would go back to Congress for an up or down vote.
Ryan said it would help end pork and 11th-hour projects stuffed into spending bills.
“We think it’s a tool of embarrassment,” Ryan said on Fox News.
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