1. “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!” - Quote by President Andrew Jackson about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall

2. Line-Item Veto A method of vetoing just PART of a bill and allowing the rest of it to pass into law Only applies to SOME STATES (not Pennsylvania and not the United States Government) The line-item veto has been created to allow governors to eliminate wasteful spending that makes its way into bills Often, to get a bill passed, extra spending (sometimes on unrelated issues) is added to win votes of undecided lawmakers.

3. How a Line-Item Veto Works Works just like a regular veto 1.Bill goes through the lawmaking process 2.Once it arrives at the Governor’s desk, instead of vetoing the whole bill, he/she selects just the lines or sections of text he/she thinks are bad and simply vetoes them. 3.It then goes back to the House and Senate, where they can override the line-item vetoed sections by a 2/3 vote in each chamber

4. Line-Item Veto Practice Instead of using a bill, we will use an Amendment from the U.S. Constitution (Governors cannot line-item veto their state’s Constitution nor can Presidents or Governors actually line-item veto the U.S. Constitution) Use Wisconsin rules: DELETE ONLY any words, letters, spaces or punctuation marks. What is left will compress together to form new words with new meaning Be silly or serious, but keep it OK for school!!

5. If progress is movement toward making things better, then what’s Congress?

6. Question: Why was the line-item veto created? Answer: To increase the power of the Governor to eliminate wasteful spending.

7. Question: What is one way in which is our practice exercise is similar to the actual line-item veto power? Answer: Allows unwanted text to be deleted Did not allow for text to be moved around

8. Question: What are two ways in which our practice exercise is different from the actual line-item veto power? Answer: Cannot line-item veto constitutions No line-item veto for federal power MOST line-item vetoes do not allow for Wisconsin rules: deleting words, letters, spaces, punctuation marks alone. Wasn’t limited to wasteful spending