Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparent concession to Republicans in order to win support for his Bosnia initiative, President Clinton allowed a military appropriations bill that he had previously threatened to veto to become law today without his signature. The Republican-sponsored plan allots $243 billion for the Defense Department, $7 billion more than the President had earlier said he would approve. But with an estimated $2 billion needed to pay for the Bosnian troop deployment, Clinton was hard pressed...
President Clinton today signed a bill lifting the 21-year-old national speed limit despite fears that the measure will result in an increase in highway fatalities. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Clinton felt a veto could cost states $6 billion because the provision is tacked onto this year's major highway spending bill. Another reason: the popular bill, which passed the House without opposition and the Senate on a 80-16 vote, is likely to withstand a veto anyway. In a few weeks, reports Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed...
...with his big thoughts and frustrating Democrats with his discipline, last week the House Speaker seemed to revert to the bomb-throwing, publicity-starved backbencher he was in the 1980s. On Tuesday night, with a partial government shutdown at hand and his deficit-reduction plan heading for a Presidential veto, he charged onto the virtually empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit...
...Paying consulting fees to outside "experts" who help on stories is not uncommon in TV news; but some questioned whether, in this case, the payment compromised both Wigand and CBS. What most appalled some at CBS News was the notion that 60 Minutes would give a source veto power over whether to run his interview. One senior CBS producer expressed outrage that the 60 Minutes journalists would go on talk shows and cloak themselves in the First Amendment when they had cut such a deal--a deal, he asserted, that would not be countenanced elsewhere at the news division...
...federal shutdown energized Republicans in the House and Senate to overcome most remaining differences and hone the final version of their seven-year balanced-budget plan. The two chambers also sent a $243 billion defense-appropriations bill to the White House for yet another anticipated veto--this time for spending more than Clinton desires...