Adam Smith: “That is something that amazed me when I got here. I was in the State Senate and the House and we always had a balanced…”

“That is something that amazed me when I got here. I was in the State Senate and the House and we always had a balanced budget amendment, and we had line-item veto. In fact, we not only had line-item veto for the budget, we had it for every bill, and the Governor could go in and take out pork and things that did not work. Now, sometimes we were a little irritated at the Governor, but the reality was it brought a great balance to some of us that might want to kick in a little pork for our district. We had to think about a check and balance of the Governor. So I think that most States have something like this. For the Federal Government not to have it, seems a little ridiculous.”