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A. Congress enacted the presidential ability to use a line-item veto.
B. Congress temporarily agreed to fewer programmatic requests.
C. He convinced moderate Republicans to support his agenda.
D. He had bigger and more cohesive party majorities in Congress.

Answer: D

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