[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H2971-H2972]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE LINE-ITEM VETO

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, today is perhaps the most 
exciting day in my 18-year career here in this Congress, as it is for 
another former President, President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan, I 
hope you are listening. You said in your book entitled Autobiography by 
Ronald Reagan, on American life with the following paragraphs, you 
said: And yet, as I reflected on what we had accomplished, I had a 
sense of incompleteness, that there was still work to be done.
  We need a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, said 
Ronald Reagan. He went on to say: And the President needs a line-item 
veto to cut out unnecessary spending.

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  Today, the Congress is agreeing, the Senate has already acted. We 
will act in the next hour, and we will send to the President a true 
line-item veto that is going to put a dent in this big-spending 
Congress once and for all, and the American people are going to yell 
hooray, hooray, hooray.

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