Word: veto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters in America'' to rewrite environmental law. And Clinton has threatened to veto any provisions to permit oil drilling in the Arctic refuge...
While Bill Clinton has threatened to veto some issues, last year's Republican sweep has put the Western lawmakers, many of whom are longtime members of Congress, into a position to make good on their agenda. In the Senate, for example, Alaska's Frank Murkowski heads the counterpart panel to Young's House committee on resources. Between them, the two ferociously prodevelopment Alaskans oversee most of the natural-resources legislation that comes before Congress. Alaska's other Republican Senator, Ted Stevens, runs the Governmental Affairs Committee. That gives him a line of fire on the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees...
Though President Clinton has threatened to veto the proposed funding cuts, Harvard Americorps participants are preparing for the worst. For them, federal cutbacks may mean the end to some service opportunities and stipends...
Hope in a Veto...
...community service leaders have not given up hope that a Presidential veto could lead to a compromise that would reinstate funding for the President's National Service Program...