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unusual facts about line item veto



Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.


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Raines v. Byrd

Of the opposition, six members of Congress, including Republican Mark Hatfield, sued to prevent use of the line-item veto.