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Venturing a guess: the goal was to allow line-item vetoes in omnibus-type bills so that the legislature can’t force the executive into accepting unwanted legisl
by wrkronmiller 7y ago
Venturing a guess: the goal was to allow line-item vetoes in omnibus-type bills so that the legislature can’t force the executive into accepting unwanted legislation alongside badly-needed and potentially unrelated legislation.
- mikepurvis 7y agoThis is basically what happens with the budget every year in Canada. And we don't even have the "executive with veto power is the other party" issue because it's parliamentary.
- cperciva 7y agoWe have no shortage of politicians promising to put an end to omnibus budget bills, though! Unfortunately they seem to forget about those promises once they get elected...
- rtkwe 7y agoThe problem is they're a simple answer to the problem of highly divided politics. Passing everything at once is the only guaranteed way to hold people across the isle to their word that voting yes on this bill they want will mean a yes on the thing you want. Instead vote on all the compromises at once. In that way the line item veto is anathema to that. The legislature agreed to this bill allowing the governor to just cherry pick the parts they like breaks that down.