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James L. Payne
James L. Payne has taught political science at Yale, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, and Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Culture of Spending: Why Congress Spends beyond Out Means (ICS Press 1991 and Budgeting in Neverland: Irrational Policymaking in the U.S. Congress (Cato Institute).
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In his State of the Union Address earlier this year, President Bush joined budget reformers in urging the adoption of the line-item veto as a way of limiting the inexorable growth of federal spending. Anyone familiar with the history of…