Practice question
A general appropriations bill contains two genuine, separate items: a specified amount for a clinic and a specified amount for a bridge. The President validly vetoes the clinic item and approves the bridge item. Which is correct?
- The bridge necessarily falls because any veto defeats the whole bill
- The President must spend the vetoed clinic amount on the bridge
- The veto does not affect the item to which the President did not object
- The veto itself authorizes a new clinic appropriation
- Only the Senate may decide whether the bridge survives
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI, Section 27: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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