With members of Congress still angry from last week's exercise in selective presidential pork trimming, Clinton used his line-item again but with more restraint. He struck US$144 million from a new $247.7 billion military spending bill but left untouched such plums as a new Navy destroyer to be built in Senate Majority Leader Lott's home, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and a clutch of new cargo jets from Gingrich's home place, Marietta, Georgia.
Veto Lite
With members of Congress still angry from last week's exercise in selective presidential pork trimming, Clinton used his line-item again but with more restraint. He struck US$144 million from a new $247.7 billion military spending bill but left untouched such plums as a new Navy destroyer to be built in Senate Majority Leader Lott's home, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and a clutch of new cargo jets from Gingrich's home place, Marietta, Georgia.
