Gov. Mike Dunleavy ramped up his threats to school districts Thursday by declaring he will make a historic line-item veto of some per-student funding in next year’s budget unless his education policy ...

Hoosier governors should have the authority to reduce or eliminate line items in the state budget, a fiscal power governors in 43 other states have. Gov. Joe Kernan in his State of the State address ...

After Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) turned heads by using special veto powers to increase public education funding in his state for the next 402 years, it’s easy to wonder how he was able to make ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — This month’s anticipated showdown over proposed budget cuts in San Diego could prompt Mayor Todd Gloria to invoke a powerful but rarely used tool known as the line-item veto. The ...

San Diego’s most turbulent budget season in at least a decade took another turn Tuesday when Mayor Todd Gloria vetoed some last-minute cuts and expenditures the City Council added to the budget a week ...

President Bush and Senator Kerry’s rare agreement in support of a line-item veto signals widespread backing for the idea, and there’s plenty of pork in the federal budget that could stand vetoing. But ...

Forty-three of the nation's governors have the power to exercise a line-item veto and every president, Republican and Democrat, since Richard Nixon has sought the same power. The line-item veto lets a ...

At the Minnesota Senate candidate debate on Tuesday night (Oct. 10), Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald brought up the explosive growth in "earmarks" on spending bills: members of Congress ...

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