On Wednesday night, he used a line-item veto to change a civil-service law that had been passed by Congress, which had the effect of changing the accounting regime for police officers' bonuses.

在周三晚，他动用单项否决权试图改变一个已经被国会通过的公务法案，该法案改变了对于警察奖金的会计准则(旨在削减警察和军人福利待遇)。

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Bill Clinton’s bid to seize the pursestrings from Congress in the 1990s with the line-item budget veto was opposed by Mr Byrd in 14 separate one-hour speeches, learned by heart, to slow up debate.

九十年代，比尔·克林顿曾企图通过项目预算否决权，从国会那里接管财政，被伯德反对，并以分别的14个一小时演讲，全部脱稿，拖延了议程。

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Also included is a statutory line item veto, giving the President more power to cut spending.

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The president asks Congress to approve a line item veto, while a sports book in Las Vegas begins to take bets on how low his approval ratings will drop.

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Under the Line Item Veto Act, Congress had to help the president in his exercise of his veto by highlighting, in the budget bill, tax breaks that benefited fewer than 101 people.

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