SRL for [campaigned]: Mr. Bush has long [campaigned] for passage of a bill or a constitutional amendment that would explicitly give him a line - item veto , which would enable him to kill individual items in a big spending bill without having to kill the entire bill .
ARG-0: Mr. Bush | ARG-M-TMP: long | ARG-1: for passage of a bill or a constitutional amendment that would explicitly give him a line - item veto , which would enable him to kill individual items in a big spending bill without having to kill the entire bill