Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president can sustain this veto in the event it passes through the Senate, the Republicans have other regulatory agencies in their sights. "You've got to remember that the Republicans' goal is to pass deregulation," saidTIME's Nina Burleigh. "No matter what Clinton says, they're going to push for deregulation." The Republicans maintain that they are not anti-environment, only anti-bureaucracy. The House vote reinstated 17 provisions which would block the EPA from regulatingcommercial development in wetlands, air pollution from refineries, water pollution from city sewers, and pesticides in foods...
...attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections and water-quality standards, his party is on the wrong side in the polls, and Democrats had the votes to force Dole into...
...consumers, a swift Bell invasion of the long-distance market could push down rates in a hurry. But the cost of local calls would be slower to fall until the arrival of full-fledged competition from sources ranging from cable companies to advanced wireless phones that would provide alternative networks...
...came down squarely on the side of affirmative action. Declaring that "affirmative action has been good for America," the President vowed to maintain the federal policy because when done right, "it is flexible, it is fair, and it works." Top Republicans were unimpressed and said they would continue to push for a complete scrapping of the policy...
Governor Weld joined the push for reform in February, when he signed a bill that included, among other provisions, language that bars people from remaining on welfare for more than two out of any five consecutive years...