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House OKs line-item veto for president

Rare bipartisan bill faces uncertain fate in Senate

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:06 a.m.

Tony Dejak
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS/AP
President Barack Obama : TONY DEJAK / AP

The House on Wednesday voted to give President Barack Obama a limited form of line-item veto in a rare moment of bipartisanship on the federal budget.

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