Word: vetoes
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Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov had been touring NATO capitals demanding a formal treaty between the alliance and Moscow. Yeltsin is looking for ironclad promises that the West will never move nuclear weapons and reinforcements into, say, Poland. Clinton has said no--that would give Moscow a veto over NATO decisions. Washington hopes Moscow will settle for a handsomely bound set of assurances, solemnly signed at a summit this spring...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Republicans renewed their effort to ban late-term abortions and forced through a bill identical to the measure vetoed by President Clinton last year. Winning House approval mostly along party lines, the bill's final tally was 295 to 136, enough to override a Presidential veto. If the proposed legislation passes the Senate and survives Clinton's desk, it would penalize anyone who performs the procedure with fines and up to two years in prison. While the bill found widespread GOP support, many House Democrats said it violates a woman's constitutional right to an abortion...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ignoring the threat of a Presidential veto, House Republicans rammed through a bill which would allow workers to choose between time off and pay for overtime. The legislation, considered by most Democrats and unions as potentially harmful to workers' rights, narrowly won House ratification by a 222-210 vote with 13 Democrats joining Republicans. If the bill passes the next legislative hurdles, it would effectively amend an existing labor law and give private employees a right many public workers have had since 1938. Under the legislation, each hour of overtime worked would equal 1/1/2 hours of paid time...
...council voted to send a letter to the I.C. requesting significant reforms within the year. Members discussed petitioning for veto power over the group...
Underpinning Levitin's piece is the extraordinary notion that the U.S. has turned on Israel. The mild concern Clinton expressed about Jabal Abu Ghaneim was belied by the U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution censuring Israel. U.S. support is as strong as ever. There is no mention of the billions of dollars in aid (more than five billion annually since the late 1980s) that fashion Israel into a regional superpower waning either...