Sara, Yes

Approving congressional spending without asking questions

Forcing unneeded programs on the military (By doing the above).....chances are if the military says we don't want another X# of M-1234567's, we'd rather spend the money on upgrading X, there's a reason for it.

Expanding federal programs. (We need less money filtering through federal bureaucracy, not more)

Line item veto power would be a nice constitutional amendment, but congress wil never pass it.

The Davis-Bacon reinstatement is why we have 3 branches of government, they're supposed to check and balance each other.