Bush to offer line-item veto, White House says

WASHINGTON, Mar 6 (Reuters) President George W Bush will announce legislation today requesting a line-item veto -- the power to cancel specific items within spending bills, the White House said.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the proposal was written in a way to head off problems raised by the U S Supreme Court when it rejected as unconstitutional a previous version of the line-item veto in 1998.

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