[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 207 (Friday, December 22, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S19182]
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                           THE LINE-ITEM VETO

  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, before I yield the floor, I want to 
mention one other issue.
  Many of us, including the Senator from Indiana, who is here, have 
worked long and hard on the line-item veto. We worked on the line-item 
veto irrespective of who the President of the United States was.
  I would like to express my deep disappointment that the conference 
has not acted since February when we passed the line-item veto and we 
have come to a great impasse on the line-item veto and have not given 
it to the President of the United States.
  Again, I am going to sound obstructionist, but this issue will have 
to be brought up also as an amendment and for debate if we are not 
willing to have a conference meet and the conference decide to pass 
this. It was passed by over 70 votes when we passed it through the 
Senate, with a far higher majority in the House of Representatives.

  When we ran on this side of the aisle in 1994, we made a commitment 
to pass a line-item veto and to give it to the President of the United 
States irrespective of the party affiliation of that President.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.

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