Word: veto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEFENSE VETO...
...world, he would need to change the Congress first. His problem was that the House was never intended to be very powerful; the Founding Fathers designed a legislative body that could boil over with parochial passions, only to be cooled by the sober Senate. Senators can filibuster; Presidents can veto. All the Speaker can do is create the appearance of momentum so that the rest of the government will...
...requiring that the budget be balanced, but it fell one vote short in the Senate, where Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon defected, insisting it was a gimmick. At the moment, the House and Senate are crafting a compromise on another kind of budget-cutting measure, the presidential line-item veto. But with a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are in no rush to hand Clinton a scalpel...
G.O.P. lawmakers want a tough welfare-reform law, including a House measure that would deny extra money to mothers who bear children while in the program. Clinton will probably veto...
...first time, Congress has defeated a veto by President Clinton. Friday morning, the Senate gathered a two-thirds majority (68-30) to reject the President's last-minute veto on Tuesday night of a bill that would restrict class-action security fraud lawsuits. The Senate action, which follows a similar House vote Wednesday, assures that the securities bill will become law. Republicans had spearheaded the push for veto-proof passage because the bill limits attorney fees and can force the losing party to pay fees and costs if the suit proves frivolous. Powerful leaders of high-technology firms backed...