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Did Rell Know A Line-Item Veto Was Impossible?
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Sep 21, 2009 02:12pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Christine Stuart |
| News Date | Monday, September 21, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Gov. M. Jodi Rell went live on the air Tuesday, Sept. 1 to announce her decision not to sign the budget, did she know she couldn’t veto portions of it?
An email trail uncovered by the Hartford Courant Sunday revealed that members of her staff had internally debated the issue and at least some of them concluded a line-item veto was impossible to enact if Rell failed to sign the budget.
But it was a risk Rell was willing to take.
“The Governor sought and received the opinion of many attorneys and , frankly, the lawyers were divided on whether she had the authority to line-item veto pork barrel spending,” Rell’s spokeswoman Donna Tommelleo said in a statement Monday. |
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