Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roth has a way with bipartisanship, a standoff seems the likeliest possibility. "Clinton has successfully sold his spending programs as more important than tax cuts," says Branegan. "The White House doesn?t feel it will have to give too much up, and if the GOP stands firm, Clinton will veto it." But take heart, overtaxed Americans: if he does, you'll get another crack at it next year...
...negotiation negotiations into high gear with the same strategy that got him through the last six years: stay on message and stay on television. "If they conclude this plan and send it to me," Clinton said Wednesday from his sunny pulpit in the Rose Garden, "I will have to veto it. I will refuse to sign any plan that signs away our commitment to America's future, Social Security, Medicare, paying down the debt...
...would seem from the shrieking produced last week as the Republican-run House rammed through a measure to chop taxes by $792 billion over the next decade. President Clinton called that irresponsible behavior, fiscally speaking, and espoused a much smaller, $250 billion tax cut. Then he angrily vowed to veto the huge reduction...
...that got ?- but didn?t need ?- support from four Democrats, Senate Republicans passed their ten-year, $792 billion plan to give Americans an annual April dividend on their surplus. They don?t have a bill that'll go anywhere -? President Clinton, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "will veto anything this big" -? but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and his House counterpart, Speaker Denny Hastert, have their defining issue. "We want to cut taxes and the President wants to spend it," Lott said after the vote. "That's what the fighting is all about." Well, that?s what...
...very different packages," says Branegan, "similar only in size. Before they can stare down Clinton, they?ve got to combine the measures into a single bill. At that point, the moderates will have their say." Which could make the face-off with the White House ?- in which a veto, as political ammunition, would be almost as good as a compromise ? look like the easy part...