DATE: Monday, October 6, 1997               TAG: 9710060052

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A6   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: WASHINGTON                        LENGTH:   29 lines

CLINTON TO USE LINE-ITEM VETO ON DEFENSE BILL

The White House said President Clinton will again delete specific items from the federal budget, this time an ``extensive'' edit of authorized spending for military construction.

Rahm Emanuel, the president's senior policy adviser, said Clinton's deletions, or line-item vetoes, will come today from a newly signed $9 billion military construction bill.

``And it will be extensive,'' Emanuel said Sunday on ``Fox Morning News.'' He did not reveal what Clinton would veto, saying, ``That's for the president to do.''

Aides spent Sunday analyzing possible veto items. At least 11 provisions are considered veto-eligible, because they were not on the Pentagon's five-year list of needed projects and were not requested by the administration.

Among them are $13 million for family housing at the Pearl Harbor naval complex in Hawaii and $6.9 million to renovate the launch pad at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Today's action will be the second time the line-item veto will have been used. Clinton is the first president with the power, which he used in August on two bills to trim taxes and balance the federal budget by the year 2002.

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