Assertion: item veto | /r/CapableOf | give much power
Facets:
value: over congress
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: over government spending
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Some scholars, such as Louis Fisher, believe the line-item veto would give presidents too much power over government spending compared with the power of the Congress.
text: Used as a method of preventing often-wasteful earmark or pork barrel spending, the line-item veto would give presidents the power to reject only individual provisions — line items — in spending bills without vetoing the rest of the bill.
text: Critics of the line item veto say it granted the president too much power and allowed the powers of the executive branch to bleed into the duties and obligations of the legislative branch of government.
text: People who do not like the line-item veto say that it is bad because it gives the President too much power over Congress and believe that it goes against the checks and balances created by the U.S. Constitution.