Word: veto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CLINTON'S FIRST VETO...
President Clinton launched his own budget salvo when his Administration announced he would veto the first major set of G.O.P. spending cuts that both houses of Congress are expected to send to his desk: $16.4 billion worth of recisions from the current budget. Proposing a set of alternative cuts, the President said the G.O.P. package was unacceptable because it would slash education, environmental and crime-prevention programs at the same time that it spares road- and courthouse-construction projects...
...Proponents said the changes -- handing over more controls to states, reducing wetlands protection and requiring that greater weight be given to costs -- were needed to counter an overzealous EPA and other "environmental extremists." The Senate is expected to be less receptive to the bill, and Clinton has promised a veto...
...chances to revert back to that mode, of course. Budget resolutions only set broad dollar targets for federal spending and revenues. Other committees and then both houses must vote the actual appropriations, and eventually a mammoth "reconciliation" bill must be signed by President Clinton, or passed over his veto. During the months of wrangling to come, some proposals will surely be modified. The House g.o.p. may not get as big a tax cut on upper incomes as it wants, since its $340 billion tax-cut package means it will have to cut at least that much more in spending. Proposals...
...leaders failed to get enough votes to halt a de facto filibuster over a legal-reform bill that, like a version passed by the House, would cap punitive damages in all civil lawsuits. With the President calling the measure the "Drunk Drivers Protection Act of 1995" and threatening a veto, G.O.P. Senators regrouped to rework the bill...