Word: veto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate on this week approved 70-29 a bill that includes a measure designed to repeal a 1986 law allowing the taxation of financial aid. President Bush is likely to veto it, however...
...family-leave veto proves that for Bush, "family values" means "Women stay home...
Media pundits and other observers have derided President Bush's recent veto of the family leave bill as evidence of a hypocritical stance on family values. They think his claim to be pro-family should include support for such bills. (He even implied as much during the 1988 campaign...
...well be that this belief, and the image of womanhood implied in it, are among the unspoken motivations for Bush's veto. Rather than implying a cynical reversal of his "family values" position, his opposition to the family-leave bill is in fact consistent with his particular pro-family stance--his definition of family, that...
...Republicans are right that a sick or newborn child would be better off with a full-time caregiver. But they seem to think that in families in which no one fills this role, selfish female ambition alone is to blame. In this context, the family-leave veto comes off as a punishment for rejecting what Marilyn Quayle thinks is women's "essential nature": child-rearing. If women don't want to raise their kids his way, Bush seems to be saying, businesses shouldn't be asked to make their lives easier...