Should the president have the power to line-item veto with the approval of the House?

Question

Should there be a constitutional amendment giving the president the power of line-item veto but, it must be approved by the House by a majority and if it is not approved the bill fails unless the president signs it into law.

Some people think that this would prevent "pork barrel spending".

Also 43 states allow their governor to have this power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_item_veto

Answer 1

Shouldn't need the approval of the House. It should just be a simple law. If the House doesn't like the line item veto, then they can just try again to waste our money or create a Bill that gets what they want for their district with a strait up or down vote.

No more secret spending and calling in political favors with line items of CRAP. It's all BS.

Answer 2

The president already has this power, many people think, if he would like to insult the people who put the pork in, but this president has repeatedly signed bills with an administrative proviso that what is in the bill doesn't apply most often on matters of security and discipline of the executive.

Answer 3

No. If Congress passes pork-barrel spending and the people don't like it, they should vote their representatives out of office in the next election.

But voters like pork-barrel spending, so that's why we have it.

Answer 4

Jefferson Davis had that when he was president of the Confederate state

Answer 5

after Bush