Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The House agreed yesterday to allow federally paid abortions for poor women who are victims of rape or incest, reversing nearly a decade of more restrictive votes and inviting a veto from President Bush...
Bush threatened in August to veto the bill if it contained the more liberal abortion language. Administration officials reiterated that threat yesterday...
...president's senior advisors would recommend a veto if Congress sent him a bill that would pay "for abortions in cases beyond when the life of the mother is endangered," said Alixe Glen, a White House spokesperson...
...offering as an alternative broader IRAs, without any tax increase to make up the revenue loss. Failing that, some Democrats favor strategy to combine the capital-gains cut in a monster tax-and-spending bill with so many provisions unacceptable to Bush that he will be forced to veto it. That risks triggering the automatic spending cuts mandated by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings if there is no agreement by Oct. 16 to hold the deficit to $110 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. But those cuts could always be rescinded later. And if the budget deficit keeps rising...
...Congress has already ordered the President to destroy by 1997 even more of the American stockpile than he proposed. Moreover, by making the complete elimination of chemical weapons contingent on the assent of 20 nations deemed capable of producing them, Bush gave veto power to mavericks like Iraq and Libya. Until such an agreement is reached, the U.S. insists on modernizing its supply with new binary nerve-gas weapons -- a position that the Soviets have termed unacceptable...