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Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by adventured on Thursday January 24, 2013 @10:09PM (#5113727)
Part of the reason for it, is the style in which the hyper dysfunctional modern era US Government passes new laws.

They do it almost strictly as a bundling system to guarantee no laws are ever vetoed. Which is how they've managed to pass tens of thousands of new federal laws, with a mere 79 vetoes spanning a quarter century.

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Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by DigitalJack on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:19PM (#5113925)
Line Item Veto is supposed to help with that. I don't know the mechanics, and if it becomes onerous when a bill has 1000+ pages.
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Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by ahoy on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:38PM (#5113996)
The president was granted line-item veto by congress in the late 90s, when Clinton was in office. It got challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional.
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