Line Item Veto Question

[Earl Maltz]

One might argue that the Constitution requires each individual bill to be 
voted upon separately before being sent to the President for his signature.

At 11:21 AM 9/7/2006 -0400, DavidEBernstein at aol.com wrote:
>Is there any reason why Congress can't simply pass a law that says 
>something along the lines of "Henceforth, when legislation is sent to the 
>president that contains more than one item, each item shall be considered 
>a separate bill.  The president may sign the entire piece of legislation, 
>which shall be deemed as approving the entire bill, or he may, with a red 
>marker, cross out any item that he objects to, and then sign the rest of 
>it, which shall be deemed a veto of those items so marked, with the rest 
>of the legislation approved."
>
>Or, if that's no good, "Henceforth, when legislation is sent to the 
>president that contains more than one item, each item shall be considered 
>a separate bill.  The president shall either sign or veto each item 
>individually."
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