Word: vetoes
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...even more grass-roots level, nine-year-old Jennifer Halton of Northern California wrote a letter to her Congressional representative asking him to stop the federal cuts proposed in her school lunch program. And President Clinton has said that if the bill gets to him, he will veto...
Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, House Republicans passed the most controversial portion of their rewrite of last year's Crime Bill (not including, that is, a possible repeal of the assault-weapons ban). By a vote of 238 to 192, the House scrapped a $13 billion outlay for new police officers and crime-prevention programs in favor of doling out $10 billion worth of block grants that communities could spend as they saw fit. Some Senate Republicans-worried that voting down money earmarked for police might not play too well to the public-indicated the measure might...
...Winnie's dubious deals. After she announced that the A.N.C. Women's League, which she heads, was going into a tourism venture with actor Omar Sharif, 11 of the league's 25 executive-committee members resigned. Charging her with ``undemocratic behavior,'' they said she had defied the committee's veto on the deal to form Road to Freedom Tours. Her colleagues had already been upset that she had used her official position to boost a new entertainment company run by her daughter Zinzi and also by reports of her association with a woman convicted of illegal diamond trading...
However, we realize the extreme improbability of the administration relinquishing any iota of power to the undergraduates in this manner, and we are not holding our breath for the moment when undergraduates are given veto power over the decision of the Dean of the College...
...that are no longer working should be dismantled. Today, the House approved a freeze on thousands of pending environmental, health and safety rules by a vote of 276-146, with GOP supporters brushing aside Democratic cries that public health and safety would be jeopardized. Even if Clinton were to veto all the GOP bills, says TIME Washington contributor Nina Burleigh, the Republicans have already won the political skirmish: "They're forcing him to defend certain 'wedge issue' programs, and he's going to have to defend some of them," she says...