[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 125 (Monday, July 31, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S10918]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ACTION NEEDED ON LINE-ITEM VETO

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, finally, I hope this week we can get the 
Speaker of the House to appoint conferees, have a conference and get a 
conference report, and get a line-item veto in the hands of this 
President. Again, if we have time for book tours and writing books and 
doing a lot of other things, we ought to have time, it seems to me, to 
be able to pick a few friends to be on a conference committee and be 
serious about the things many Members of Congress campaigned on.
  If they believe in a line-item veto, let us decide to give that to 
this President right now and see if we cannot cut some of the pork in 
the appropriations bills moving through the House and Senate, including 
all kinds of lard now stuck to these bills for the districts of folks 
who have been bellowing the loudest about the problems of Federal 
spending. The problems of Federal spending seem to stop when this is 
their district and their appropriations bill, and it also seems to stop 
when it comes to getting serious about sending to this President a 
line-item veto that would be put in the hands of this President. I 
yield the floor.


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