Word: bill
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Nixon vetoed the bill, calling it unconstitutional, but Congress overrode the veto. Every president since--Democrat and Republican--has called the act an unconstitutional limit on the power of the executive. And yet, every president has obeyed the law by keeping Congress, or at least individual members of Congress, informed of the nation's military position...
...bill, which passed through the Senate by an 87-3 vote, would create the oft-discussed cabinet-level position of drug "czar." It would also allow the death penalty against drug "kingpins," stregnthen penalties for both the use and sale of illicit drugs, and permit random testing for transportation and nuclear-industry workers...
...your chest here on the Senate floor so you can...tell everybody how tough you are on drugs is no solution." said Senator Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.) But Bumpers ended up supporting the anti-drug legislation, not because he was a hypocrite but because he realized that the new bill, despite its political overtones, was a step in the right direction...
Although most public criticism has been focused on the inclusion of the death penalty, what's forgotten is that the new bill also authorizes major new expenditures for education, treatment, rehabilitation and law enforcement efforts. The bill's attack of the drug problem from both the demand side and the supply side represents a long-awaited, comprehensive national policy to attack the drug problem...
...anti-drug bill, how does The Times or The Post explain the support from the nearly 60 senators who are not up for re-election next month or the incumbents who are virtual locks come November...