Whenever someone proposes giving the President this kind of line-item veto authority, the examples they give are like money for a mule museum in Bishop, California, or funds to refurbish the statue of Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama.
McCain critiques how line-item veto authority is justified with trivial examples.
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