Date: July 31, 1987
Subject: Line-Item Veto
Description: Evans (R-WA) amendment to provide, for a two-year period, that individual titles in a continuing appropriations resolution (an omnibus bill to continue funding of government programs into a new fiscal year) be subject to presidential veto. This would in effect give the President a limited line item veto power whenever Congress combines multiple appropriations bills into a single massive continuing resolution.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 41-48
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