Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has two choices when a bill curbing religious freedom lands on his desk, and neither of them are good. To veto the bill passed Friday by the Duma ? and effectively make Russian Orthodoxy the dominant religion ? would anger the powerful church and a large section of the Russian public who support the bill as a defense of Russian culture. But to pass the measure would draw huge protest from Western churches such as the Mormons, whose large missionary programs in the country would be outlawed...
...Elvis Presley estate and others have purchased broad "rights of descendibility of publicity"--court rulings that foster the creation of generations of idle rich at the expense of free speech. Presley family members and heirs of similar celebrities have veto power over how a person is portrayed in art and literature. If you want to produce a work of art inspired by Malcolm X, you must first get the approval of the licensing agency. One day the U.S. Supreme Court will look at these issues. I hope it will hold that free speech is more important than the right...
...seller of stocks anymore. Since the tax act cleared Congress on July 28, the market has held up fine. We aren't interested in some piddling tax consideration while stocks are rising 30% a year. Some selling may materialize this week as the deadline passes for a line-item veto. But so far the response to this tax cut has been nothing like the previous...
...long last, President Clinton has signed the budget that contains $95 billion in tax cuts ? or rather, tax loopholes. The President made a show of bipartisanship on the White House lawn with Speaker Gingrich at his side ? and chances are he won't be using his line-item veto to remove a pro-tobacco provision that Republicans sneaked in at the last minute. Clinton knows that any veto would have caused "political misery," says TIME's Jef McAllister, by undoing the delicate bipartisan balance of the hard-won budget deal. Minority leader Dick Gephardt told the White House he would...
...their own versions of the tax bill, Republicans are now headed for the White House with a compromise that looks to have "Return To Sender" scrawled all over it. But TIME's John Dickerson reports it's too early to tell if Republicans are setting themselves up for a veto. "Clinton has said he will veto any provision that requires an indexing of capital gains, but they've got a lot of negotiations to do. The Republicans are deliberately throwing out proposals that are on the extreme edge of what they want so they will have some bargaining room...