Word: veto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lieutenant Governor Scott McCallum said thatThompson will not sign the bill if it passes. Hebelieves, however, that a veto will not benecessary. "The bill came out of committee but itis not going anywhere," McCallum said yesterday."[It] won't get through the legislature, the votesjust aren't there...
...Union address. Riding the momentum of near 60% approval ratings, the President outlined an ambitious -- and not altogether surprising -- agenda for the coming congressional session. At the top of his list: health care, welfare reform, crime, education and jobs. Clinton also vowed, read-my-lips style, to veto any health-care bill that doesn't guarantee universal coverage. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, delivering the not altogether surprising G.O.P. response, said the President was exaggerating the extent of the nation's health-care problem and urged the White House to be even tougher on crime...
...peace process. Toward this end, Rabin and Peres have prudently held out over a number of outstanding issues. Most important among these is the issue of who will control the borders of Gaza and Jericho with other Arab states. Israel has insisted, justly, that Israeli authorities should have veto power over entry of some foreigners into the West Bank and Gaza...
...which requires everyone over the age of twelve to wear a seat belt, passed last month despite a veto by Governor William F. Weld...
Russia needs to be told that it does not have a veto over NATO membership. That only an imperial Russia would take offense at East Europeans finding shelter in NATO -- the Polish army, after all, is no threat to Moscow. And that if Russia insists on military pressure on its neighbors, it will pay a high price, economic and diplomatic, in relations with America...