{"id":169414,"date":"2019-04-10T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169414"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:13:26","slug":"burgum-vetoes-bill-legislatures-power-over-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169414","title":{"rendered":"Burgum vetoes bill, defining authority of legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-168140\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Burgumsigning-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (Gov. Burgum&#8217;s Office) \u00a0 \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed Senate Bill 2055, citing legislative overreach and an unconstitutional delegation of power to the Legislature\u2019s Budget Section.<\/p>\n<p>In his veto message, Burgum referenced the North Dakota Supreme Court ruling last year that found the Legislature had overstepped its constitutional authority by delegating power over spending decisions to the Budget Section, which consists of 42 of the Legislature\u2019s 141 members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill is fundamentally flawed because it disregards the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling and attempts to enshrine in state law the Budget Section\u2019s unconstitutional practice of acting as a mini-Legislature,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cInstead of addressing the issue raised in last year\u2019s ruling and properly balancing authority between the branches of government, Senate Bill 2055 makes the problem worse. We urge legislators to reject this bill and work collaboratively with the executive branch to avoid further litigation and develop common-sense policy that benefits the taxpayers of North Dakota.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (Gov. Burgum&#8217;s Office) \u00a0 \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed Senate Bill 2055, citing legislative overreach and an unconstitutional delegation of power to the Legislature\u2019s Budget Section. In his veto message, Burgum referenced the North Dakota Supreme Court ruling last year that found the Legislature had overstepped its constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169425,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169414\/revisions\/169425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}