Line Item Veto Act of 1996 Main article: Line Item Veto Act of 1996 Presidents have repeatedly asked Congress to give them a line item veto power. According to
Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, "Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year. Give me the authority...