[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 23 (Monday, February 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      VOTE FOR THE LINE-ITEM VETO

  (Mr. SANFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you and the rest of this 
body to encourage the adoption of the line-item veto. In fact, I have a 
scary couple of numbers here in front of me.
  What do $1.75 million for national pig research have in common with 
$1.7 million for plant stress have in common with $600,000 to ease fish 
migration up a western river? The thing they all have in common is I 
cannot do anything about them.
  I came here to affect the way Government is spending money, and yet 
the way Congress works is that I cannot get my hands on them.
  The line-item veto would allow the President to do what 43 Governors 
can do, and that is to reach in, say this is a piece of fat, it does 
not make sense and it needs to go.
  Please vote with me for the line-item veto.

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