Line Item Veto Act of 1996
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United States Supreme Court cases | |
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Clinton v. City of New York |
The Line Item Veto Act
Legislative history
The bill was introduced by Senator Bob Dole on January 4, 1995, cosponsored by Senator John McCain and 29 other senators. Related House Bills included H.R. 147, H.R. 391, H.R. 2,H.R. 27 and H.R. 3136. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on April 9, 1996.
Judicial review
Raines v. Byrd
It was immediately challenged in the
Clinton v. City of New York
Clinton subsequently used the veto on a provision of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and two provisions of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, each of which was challenged in a separate case: one by the City of New York, two hospital associations, one hospital, and two health care unions; the other by a farmers' cooperative from Idaho and an individual member of the cooperative. Senators Byrd, Moynihan, Levin, and Hatfield again opposed the law, this time through Amicus curiae briefs.
Judge Thomas Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia combined the cases and declared the law unconstitutional on February 12, 1998.[2] This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998, by a 6–3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. Justices Breyer, Scalia, and O'Connor dissented. The ruling has been criticized by some legal scholars.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Philip G. Joyce, "The Federal Line Item Veto Experiment: After the Supreme Court Ruling, What's Next?." Public Budgeting & Finance 18.4 (1998): 3-21.
- ^ Charnovitz, Steve (March 23, 1998). "The Line Item Veto Isn't a 'Veto' at All". National Law Journal: A17.
- ^ Charnovitz, Steve (July 14, 1998). "Unleashing more pork". Journal of Commerce.
External links
- Legislative Information from the Library of Congress Archived September 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine