Word: veto
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...know better. The President of the U.S. and the Secretary-General of the U.N. have gone chest to chest over who should run the international peace organization when Boutros-Ghali's term expires Dec. 31. "You're out," says Clinton. "I won't go," answers Boutros-Ghali. "We veto you," responds Clinton. "I'm still the only candidate," retorts Boutros-Ghali. The African bloc can keep submitting the 74-year-old diplomat's name to the Security Council for a second five-year term, and the U.S. can keep vetoing his re-election, but such a fruitless battle of wills...
...blunt way, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. representative on the Security Council, makes it clear that it won't be Clinton. "Look," she said after she cast the lone vote against Boutros-Ghali in the 15-member council last week, "we are opposed to Boutros-Ghali. And we have the veto here." As his chief African backers decide hanging on to a second term for their continent is more important than retaining Boutros-Ghali, he has little time left to withdraw with some dignity intact...
There was nothing in this race for the House quite like Cubin's 1994 campaign headline grabber--distributing penis-shaped cookies to her colleagues in the Wyoming statehouse--but now that she is a member of Congress, Cubin has a record to run on. She supported the line-item veto and term limits, and with her post on the Resources Committee is in a position to protect the state's national parks...
Clement is a conservative--he backed acts to streamline the Federal Railroad Administration and the FAA and cut the capital-gains tax--but he also supported Democratic budget-balancing measures and Clinton's veto of a $16.4 billion spending cut. He is one of the strongest Democrats in the state...
...Democrats dedicated to fiscal and social reform. In 1995 they put forth their own welfare plan, which helped lay the groundwork for this year's bill. He joins G.O.P. conservatives in voting against gun control and federal funding of abortion, and was an early supporter of the line-item veto and a balanced-budget amendment. His opponent will have a hard time being more Republican than Tanner sometimes seems...