Bill Clinton: “Do you want to have one more question---- Mr. Gendron. Ladies and gentlemen, we have time for one more question.…”

“Do you want to have one more question---- Mr. Gendron. Ladies and gentlemen, we have time for one more question. Line-Item Veto [A participant asked if the line-item veto would lower the budget and help reduce the deficit.] Speaker Gingrich. The answer is yes, it would. And I support it. And I'm hoping we're going to be in conference this summer. And the line- item veto's aimed specifically at appropriations bills. And he's already indicated that's how he'd use it. And I hope we're going to be able to get it passed and to him this summer so he can actually use it. I strongly favor it. I think 43 of the Governors have it. I think you had it when you were Governor of Arkansas. And I think--now, it's not going to be by itself a panacea, but it's going to cut a couple of billion dollars a year of pork out, maybe as much as $10 billion if we--under certain circumstances. And I supported it when we had Ronald Reagan and George Bush. And just as the other night, frankly, we tried to repeal the War Powers Act to give the President back the right--the legitimate power of the Commander in Chief, I think that any President ought to have the line- item veto. And I support President Clinton getting it.”