Elizabeth Dole - U.S. Senator for North Carolina





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	555 Dirksen Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Ph: 202.224.6342 Fax: 202.224.1100


	Raleigh Office: 310 New Bern Avenue Suite 122 Raleigh, NC 27601 Ph: 919.856.4630 Toll Free: 866.420.6083 Fax: 919.856.4053 Salisbury Office: 225 North Main Street Suite 304 Salisbury, NC 28144 Ph: 704.633.5011 Toll Free: 866.420.6084 Fax: 704.633.2937 Western Office: 401 North Main Street Suite 200 Hendersonville, NC 28792 Ph: 828.698.3747 Fax: 828.698.1267 Eastern Office: 306 South Evans Street Greenville, NC 27835 Ph: 252.329.1093 Fax: 252.329.1097

Issue - Budget

As we recover from an economic downturn, it is the responsibility of Congress to achieve fiscal balance and to order spending priorities. When I served in President Reagan’s Cabinet, I remember the President repeatedly calling for line-item veto authority because it was a helpful tool he had used to control unnecessary spending as Governor of California. In fact, 43 of 50 governors have had some sort of line-item veto authority. The experience of governors across America shows that the line-item veto can be a powerful restraint on wasteful spending. And we must get spending under control and focus on national priorities like creating more jobs, fighting the war against terrorism and improving our public schools.

Elizabeth Dole