Word: veto
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...lacks the legal clout to subpoena a company's internal records if a problem is suspected. Congress woke up to the problem last fall, at Kessler's prodding, and introduced a bill that would have enabled the ( agency to seize corporate documents. The threat of a presidential veto halted the measure, though the new revelations about Halcion and breast implants seem likely to revive the initiative...
...club focuses primarily on fiscal issues, such as ROTC and the line-item veto, rather than social issues...
...freedom-of-choice bill that would attempt to compel states to keep abortion legal and uniformly available. Any such law would be subject to challenge as an unconstitutional infringement on states' rights. But it would give Democrats the advantage of forcing Bush to cast a highly visible anti-choice veto in the midst of his re-election campaign...
Because of the ever increasing importance of economic issues, pressure is building to give Germany and Japan permanent places on the Security Council, but without the power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...
Witness the appointment last week of Massachusetts native Andrew H. Card to replace Skinner at the Department of Transportation. In the 1988 race, Card urged Bush to use the Willie Horton story and Michael Dukakis's veto of the Pledge of Allegiance bill when both had been largely forgotten. They were winners. Loyalty oath passed...