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...billion; today, the total costs are estimated at $8 billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...
...hardy among us weathered it through to Clinton's speech. By now, the remaining viewers were in a variety of exhausted poses, and lines of argument reached me from all directions: "And I'm saying the anti-incumbency factor has overridden, right, like, completely removed coattails from the Clinton surge...how can they say that Cuomo is worse than Clinton. The man is a seer, he is just the greatest...And our chart shows that white protestants with 2.4 kids and severe dyspepsia...So what are you doing on Friday night?...I've always loved you, you know that. Always...
...necessary two-thirds vote to overturn the legislation, which bars abortion counseling by nonphysician workers in federally funded family-planning clinics. The vote came the day after the Administration's curb on such funding took effect. Bush's Saturday veto of a bill reregulating cable TV just might be overridden; it was first passed by a more than 2-to-1 vote in both houses...
...speech advocates. They questioned the constitutionality of limiting the advice that doctors could give to patients, but the Supreme Court early this year upheld the prohibition. The Senate bill and a House version will be reconciled in conference. The President, who has vetoed 21 bills and has never been overridden, was warned by congressional leaders of both parties that his winning streak will be at grave risk if he balks when the final bill reaches his desk...