COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A spokesman for Governor Mark Sanford says the governor has vetoed the entire state budget.

House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper says he has never seen a governor veto an entire budget.

South Carolina governors can go line-by-line and veto specific items in the state's spending bill, but Sanford chose to veto the entire $6.6 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1st.

Cooper says the House will take up that veto Wednesday, along with several others the governor made before the midnight Tuesday deadline.