LINE ITEM VETO
From 1997 until it was declared unconstitutional in 1998, the Line Item Veto Act provided the President authority to cancel certain individual items contained in a bill or joint resolution that he had signed into law. The law allowed the President to cancel only three types of fiscal items:
A dollar amount of discretionary budget authority.
An item of new direct spending.
A tax change benefiting a class of 100 or fewer.
While the Act has not been repealed, the Supreme Court in