SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — This month’s anticipated showdown over proposed budget cuts in San Diego could prompt Mayor Todd Gloria to invoke a powerful but rarely used tool known as the line-item veto. The ...

President George W. Bush has asked Congress to enact the "Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006." This proposal, sponsored in the Senate by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and in the House by ...

Line-item budgeting offers decision-makers an incremental, or step-by-step, approach to budgeting. Budget makers can use a line-item budget to make specific decisions, such as changing funding levels ...

Energy upgrades are supposed to cut your utility bills, not trigger a paperwork headache when you file your 2025 taxes. Yet a quiet change in the rules means one missing line on your contractor’s ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis used his line-item veto pen on 50 projects in the Jacksonville area totaling around $70 million, but most of the bigger items that lawmakers inserted into the 2024-25 budget remained ...

Health plans are using both new and old methods to deny healthcare providers’ claims, all of which are legally and factually unsupportable. These tactics have repeatedly been rejected by arbitrators ...

The Dalai Lama once observed: “A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.” These words concisely describe why a line-item veto is so vitally important for Rhode Island.

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One of the reasons given for a line-item veto in Rhode Island is that governors in 44 states have it. Another is that it will reduce corruption. A third is that it will lead to a smaller state budget ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Pres. Bill Clinton explains the rationale for the existence of the line-item veto and explains why he chose to use it for the very first time. The ...