Rep. Paul Ryan may call it “The Legislative Line Item Veto Act,” but that’s just a cheap marketing ploy for the unsophisticated. We on The Corner know it by its true name: enhanced rescission authority! Yet as the Poet once said, “enhanced rescission authority by another name is just as sweet” (or something like that). Anyway, Ryan’s testimony is worth reading — and his bill is worth supporting, unless of course you think Congress is the very embodiment of fiscal discipline.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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