Word: veto
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EARLIER THIS MONTH, Congress passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits for those who were especially hard-hit by the recession. Bush vetoed it, and won a close battle to sustain the veto. The program was too expensive, he said, and unnecessary, because the economy had hit bottom and was rebounding. But despite his denials, the recession has been getting worse. Unemployment today is 6.8%, the highest rate since May, when Bush first began to promise that the United States was in recovery...
There were other things to straighten out as well. The Palestinians handed Baker a tentative list of their delegates, who will attend the conference jointly with representatives from Jordan. In a bow to Palestinian sensitivity about the implicit Israeli veto over their delegation, Baker refused to share the list with Shamir -- or so he said. But he assured the Israelis that the roster contained no names they would object to. Said an uncharacteristically trustful Shamir: "Jim Baker's word is good enough for me." The Prime Minister said it was up to his full Cabinet to decide finally whether Israel...
...year, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected; she voted for Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take up Senator John Danforth's civil rights bill, which for the first time would award compensatory damages to victims of sexual harassment. But even after the recent outpouring of testimony about the problem, congressional lobbyists are not sure the Senate will produce the votes...
...feel compelled to increase the number of female senior White House aides, who now number two of 14? Will more women become candidates for office, and will those already challenging males in the 1992 elections see their prospects brightened? Will significant social legislation be affected? Bush has threatened to veto the parental-leave and civil rights bills on the verge of congressional passage. Will he follow through on those threats, and if he does, will Congress muster the votes required to override those vetoes...
Troy cites the example of the United Auto Workers, which came close to splitting into two unions in the late 1950s because of this levelling effect. Ultimately, the more skilled workers gained the right to veto power over any collective bargaining pact--a necessary, but not necessarily democratic, move if meritocracy was to remain in the auto industry...