William Orton: “I think it will remove criticism from the amendment and in fact eliminate one of the objections that many people have…”

In fact that adds up to a total according, to the Joint Economic Committee, of $216.1 billion in cuts. If in fact you only have $122 billion provided for in tax cuts, you are $94 billion short.

CBO has it wrong, but under the gentleman's proposal CBO would have it even more wrong and we would have even higher deficits.

The gentleman's position is certainly understandable. The concern, however, is that it certainly was a major platform in the Contract With America. It passed this body with overwhelming support. The President supports it, yet the 1996…

Just in response to my friend who just mentioned that it was the President who asked for this, yes, the President asked for line-item veto. The President did not ask for line-item veto to be until after the new year of 1997. It was offered…