Word: veto
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...permitted the National Rifle Association to claim, reasonably, that Dole had not moved at all. Of course by then, like Hurricane Bertha, Dole wasn't done shattering windows and scattering debris. Within 48 hours, he started all over again, telling CBS News that he would, if elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
...include politically unpalatable changes in Medicaid. The White House welcomed the news Friday and said that the prospects for passing a welfare overhaul bill this year have brightened considerably. Congress hopes to have a welfare reform bill on the President's desk before the August recess. Clinton has already vetoed two welfare reform bills that included turning Medicaid into block grants controlled by the states. "President Clinton will undoubtedly face a lot of pressure from liberal Democrats not to sign a welfare bill," says TIME's James Carney. "But early indications show that he will sign the bill into...
...estimate placed the project's price tag at $2.5 billion; today, the total costs are estimated at $8 billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...Even with much of the world behind him, Boutros Boutros-Ghali's chances of winning another term as U.N. Secretary General are receding. France, China and Russia, members of the powerful Security Council, strongly support Boutros-Ghali, but the U.S. confirmed Thursday that it would use its Council veto if the Egyptian were re-elected. Seeking to soften the blow, the Clinton Administration had offered Boutros-Ghali a one-year extension of his term. The Secretretary General turned it down. "The Clinton Administration feels that Boutros-Ghali has not done a good job reorganizing and streamlining the organization," says TIME...
...Campaign Committee the same month House G.O.P. leaders relaxed a requirement in the bill that Baby Bells must have competition for local telephone business before being able to sell long-distance service. Later long-distance companies gave $160,000 to the Democrats after President Clinton threatened that he would veto the legislation. Around the time a compromise was struck, money flowed to both parties. Ann McBride, president of Common Cause, says the result of such giving is that "the integrity of the legislative process is destroyed...