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Before limping out of Washington last week, Congress did manage to approve a bill that would create 50 new enterprise zones and offer $28 billion in tax breaks, such as expanded benefits for individual retirement accounts and a repeal of the luxury taxes on expensive boats, furs and jewelry. Even though the measure incorporated a number of elements of his own economic program, George Bush, mindful of the promise he made last summer not to raise taxes "ever, ever," vowed to veto the legislation because it included some tax increases...
...almost entirely to Bush's implacable hostility to choice and the widespread perception that the Supreme Court is only one Justice away from overturning Roe v. Wade, which constitutionally protects a woman's right to abortion. Now, at the worst possible time, the President has again vetoed Congress's repeal of the regulation that prohibits abortion counseling at 4,000 federally funded family-planning clinics that serve the $ poor -- a ban the Administration says it will begin enforcing on Oct. 1. Combined with the gutting of other sex-education and family-planning programs, the President's action closes the circle...
...Senate on this week approved 70-29 a bill that includes a measure designed to repeal a 1986 law allowing the taxation of financial aid. President Bush is likely to veto it, however...
...Bill Clinton will issue executive orders to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians from military or foreign service," read the opening lines of a Clinton policy sheet on issues of concern to gays and lesbians...
...Bill Clinton will issue executive orders to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians from military or foreign service," read the opening lines of a Clinton policy sheet on issues of concern to gays and lesbians...