Word: veto
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...urgency. The two branches of state government were still hung up over the question of how to close an $11 billion gap for a new $60 billion budget. At the heart of the standoff was Wilson's stubborn insistence on cutting education $2.3 billion. Wilson also threatened to veto a compromise bill introduced in his own Republican ranks. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's Democrats just as stubbornly drew the line and refused to cut school funding more than $605 million. Fumed the Assembly's education chairwoman Delaine Eastin, a Democrat: "We're not going to balance the budget...
...Jersey legislature, they have held open season on the laws passed by their Democratic predecessors under the leadership of Governor Jim Florio. Among the latest to fall was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns -- though not, even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis...
...lengthy transition process calculated to entrench the National Party in a system of power sharing. The A.N.C. believes that De Klerk revealed his true colors at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, which became deadlocked in May over his demand that, in effect, whites be given a veto in the proposed two-chamber constituent assembly that will draw up a post-apartheid constitution. When the President insisted on allowing a mere 26% to block any constitution favored by the vast majority, the A.N.C. balked at a system that it called "loser takes...
...legislature meets only biennially, for two months, to keep the representatives of the people out of evil Little Rock. The power to tax is severely restricted -- the legislature must raise all state taxes by a three- quarters vote. The Governor, with only a two-year term, has a weak veto. Attempts to write a new constitution have been crushed twice in recent years by a populace afraid of giving any more power to the government. Even the New Deal, which brought blessings to all the South, met the most grudging reception in Arkansas, which refused to raise local funds...
...enemy in a NUCLEAR TESTING moratorium. The Administration opposes a ban. Bill Clinton has made it an election issue, but the fight is only beginning. The House and more than half the Senate support the one-year test ban written into the 1993 defense authorization bill. President Bush may veto the bill to kill the ban. Four more nuclear tests are planned this year, and six next. The Administration insists that testing is needed to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. arsenal. But at least three upcoming blasts are designed primarily to test the effects on Star Wars...