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...veto is overridden, the $91 million will have to be found elsewhere in the budget, probably from Human Services," said Larry Kraus, an aide to Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge...
Dukakis' veto was overridden by large margins in the legislature, but the state attorney general ruled that the law was "unenforceable." As in most states, the pledge is still recited in Massachusetts elementary schools on a voluntary basis. "Of course, the pledge is taken all the time in Massachusetts," Dukakis said last week. "We take it in ceremonies and everything else. I encourage schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance . . . That's not the issue, and the Republicans know...
...come. Urged on by many businessmen, Reagan last May vetoed an omnibus trade bill because it contained the notification provision. Overridden in the House, the veto was sustained by a precarious five-vote margin in the Senate. The Democrats, emboldened by polls indicating that 82% of voters favored advance notification, continued to push for the measure. The bill's sponsors cited a 1985 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that more than half of the 2.2 million workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work...
...overriding the veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act until early this week. Few in Congress or the White House have much doubt that both chambers will vote by a top-heavy majority to make the bill law. Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz predicted that "the veto will be overridden handily...
...years ago the outcome might have been different. From 1981 through 1986, Reagan vetoed 59 bills; only six of those vetoes were overridden. In addition, the mere threat of a veto caused Congress either to kill or to rewrite many bills. But since the Democrats gained control of the Senate in the 1986 elections, it has been Congress that has been imposing its will on the President. Reagan has swallowed many congressional actions of which he strongly disapproved -- the military-spending cuts forced by last year's budget compromise, for example -- rather than risk what he knew would be futile...