Word: veto
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House Democrats said they planned to bring the $3.1 billion anti-crime package to a vote today while Senate Republicans vowed to fight passage and predicted a veto by President Bush if they failed...
BOSTON--Pro-choice groups in the Boston area are redoubling their efforts after Congress failed to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would have lifted the socalled "gag rule" on abortion advice...
...Governor PETE WILSON say he would "very likely" sign California's gay-rights bill, only to veto it five months later? Presidential ambition. Savvy politicos noted that as soon as Wilson won the close-fought gubernatorial campaign a year ago, he began setting his sights on a 1996 bid. But when the bill outlawing job discrimination against gays landed on Wilson's desk, top GOP strategists warned him that he would lose conservative support if he signed it. Maybe they were right. But because of his performance on this and other issues, recent polls show that Wilson's voter-approval...
...height, it's also not a good time for the Republicans to lose ground in the Senate. Wofford only increases the Democratic majority by one vote, but it is solid liberal vote in the place of a moderate Republican one. In very close votes (such as Supreme Court confirmations, veto overrides on civil rights bills, etc.) this could make a big difference...
When aides suggested that he veto the $6.4 billion unemployment-benefits bill with no fanfare, Bush would have none of it. He ordered a Rose Garden offensive with his political general staff assembled for the cameras, and he signed the veto with a flourish. As House Minority Leader Robert Michel left the scene, he muttered, only partly in jest, "Could you airbrush me out of this picture...