The United States Constitution, the shortest written Constitution in the world, has only twenty-seven amendments, and now it's time to add one more. Presidential veto power was denied to the Clinton administration in 1998, but since this last Congress was the least productive Congress ever, it is time to rethink the distribution of power in the legislative process. In Congress, on average, only 10% of proposed bills reach the President's desk. Nowadays an invoice, on average, is 3,105 words. When Congress was created, the idea was that each legislative proposal would be contained in a single bill, now bills include various provisions. This is why the veto power would be useful for expanding presidential authority. This veto authority over an item is the ability to strike down certain provisions while still being able to legislate the entire bill into law. This would be beneficial to the U.S. government, as an amendment that would allow the president to cut unnecessary spending to in turn reduce the national deficit. The US government must pass an amendment to allow presidents to use the voice veto. The United States Constitution establishes the procedure for making a bill a law in Article 1, Section 7. Scholars have interpreted the Constitution to mean that a president can only sign or veto a bill, but the section examined by many other scholars that would allow the veto of an item is that “if he approves he will sign it, but if not he will return it, with his Objections to the Assembly in which it will have originated, who will place the Objections generally on their Journal and will proceed to r...... half of the document ......ion Review 57.2 (1997): 95 -104. Premier corporate source. Network. February 20, 2014. Joyce, Philip G. "The Federal Online Voice Veto Experiment: After the Supreme Court Ruling, What's Next? (Cover Story)." Budget and Public Finance 18.4 (1998): 3-21. Premier corporate source. Network. February 20, 2014. Kitzmiller, Felicia. “Library system grappling with budget cuts.” News Herald, The (Panama City, FL) May 22, 2012: Newspaper source. Network. February 25, 2014.Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Print.Stevens, John Paul. "Opinion." William J. Clinton, President of the United States, et al., Appellants v. City of New York et al. United States Supreme Court. United States 1998. Web. May 6, 2014. Tolchin, Martin. "Veto on items: a surrender or a remedy for the deficit?" New York Times[Washington] 03 January 1984, n. page Network. February 26. 2014.