 The president approves or rejects a bill in its entirety; he is not permitted to veto specific provisions.In 1996, Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which gave the president the power to veto individual items of budgeted expenditures in appropriations bills.The Supreme Court subsequently declared the line-item veto unconstitutional as a violation of the Presentment Clause in "Clinton v. City of New York", .