[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 23 (Monday, February 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H1220-H1221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          LINE-ITEM VETO: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME

  (Mr. WELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, today we will vote to add one more 
disciplinary tool to the budget and appropriations process, the line-
item veto. Along with the balanced budget amendment, which we passed 2 
weeks ago, the line-item veto will help bring fiscal sanity to 
Congress' out-of-control spend-a-thon over the last 40 years.
  Former President Ronald Reagan used to say the line-item veto was not 
a partisan issue but a good-government issue. Unfortunately, the 
Democrat-controlled Congress refused, refused to put aside partisan 
differences to pass this important legislation. But today we will 
finally throw aside partisan politics. We will pass this good-
government measure.
  Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan. The line-item veto is an idea whose 
time has come. It is too bad we could not 
 [[Page H1221]] have done this years ago when Ronald Reagan was 
President.


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