{"id":376659,"date":"2015-07-22T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376659"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:15:12","slug":"republicans-clash-over-line-item-vetoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376659","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Clash over Line-Item Vetoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/150x150-75-5c9251d29d5b6ee457ae2e9507477bb524b55167ac87b6afcfa548bbb1074fc2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/150x150-75-5c9251d29d5b6ee457ae2e9507477bb524b55167ac87b6afcfa548bbb1074fc2.jpg\" alt=\"150x150-75-5c9251d29d5b6ee457ae2e9507477bb524b55167ac87b6afcfa548bbb1074fc2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-376660\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; A Republican power struggle emerges over questionable vetoes by Governor Abbott &#8212; with an East Texan weighing in on a case that could end up in the state Supreme Court.  It began when the director of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Legislative Budget Board sent a letter to the comptroller questioning $200 million of Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s budget vetoes.  Rice University political science professor Mark Jones says, &#8220;The LBB&#8217;s argument is that the governor can only use his power of a line-item veto on appropriation items.&#8221;  LBB director Ursula Parks led the charge in making that argument.  State Senator and LBB member Kevin Eltife of Tyler (pictured) says, &#8220;The governor can reach into agencies as well, so he has several ways of stopping a project if he doesn&#8217;t want it done.&#8221;  Lt. Governor Dan Patrick now sides with Abbott, leaving House Speaker Joe Straus on the other side of the debate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; A Republican power struggle emerges over questionable vetoes by Governor Abbott &#8212; with an East Texan weighing in on a case that could end up in the state Supreme Court. It began when the director of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Legislative Budget Board sent a letter to the comptroller questioning $200 million of Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s budget &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans Clash over Line-Item Vetoes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":376660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 16:37:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376661,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376659\/revisions\/376661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}