Arizona Lawmakers Could Have Avoided Line-Item Vetoes

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When Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a large portion of the budget approved by lawmakers earlier this month, she sent the Legislature back to square one.

Now Republican leaders are working with Democrats instead of the governor to craft a spending plan, and the state still faces a $2.5 billion deficit a month after the fiscal deadline - thanks to Brewer's line-item vetoes of the spending cuts and her wholesale vetoes of more than a dozen other budget bills.

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Arizona Lawmakers Could Have Avoided Line-Item Vetoes

But some of those vetoes could have been avoided if GOP legislative leaders had heeded the advice given to them by the Arizona Supreme Court in 2003.

The governor's use of line-item vetoes on the budget was done in a way that effectively increased ...

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