Word: vetoes
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...remain a military superpower, however, Romney knows that America must keep its economy strong. This will require ending Washington’s splurges. Romney will cut spending, promising to veto any budget in which non-defense discretionary spending grows faster than inflation minus one percent. He’ll dry out his veto pen, which he used over 800 times in Massachusetts. Furthermore, Romney will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and allow middle class families to save money tax free with a zero percent tax rate on interest, capital gains, and dividends...
...campaign - notably, outside advisers say, media consultant Mandy Grunwald and adviser Harold Ickes - who have been worried for months that Clinton was missing the fundamental shift in the electorate. However, their entreaties have gone nowhere. Bill and Hillary Clinton have put enormous faith in Penn, and given him veto power, aides say, over every word that goes into her television ads and every line in her mailers. "He had her and the President's trust very deeply," says one adviser who is close to the campaign. Adds another: "He's a one-man shop...
...rarely happens in the U.S." But while China is almost certain to become the world's biggest market for clean tech - the government is calling for 15% of the country's energy to come from renewables by 2020, the same target that President George W. Bush has threatened to veto in the U.S. - the nation's businesses have yet to show that they can create green innovations on a large scale, rather than buying and selling those developed elsewhere...
...twins is usually met with gales of laughter. From there, he pitched into a surprisingly emotional denouncement of government pork that ends with a prop: "Ronald Reagan once gave me a pen" - holding up a pen. "This isn't it." Laughter. "But I'm going to use [it] to veto any bill with pork that comes across my desk...
...that they will play a spoiler role increase dramatically." Renewed Hamas violence, the letter suggested, would undercut Israeli public support for the negotiations. Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia, whose country opposes boycotting Hamas, says that neither Hamas nor hard-line Israeli parties need be given a veto over progress. "You have that kind of position on both sides," he told TIME. "We hope reasonable people, people of peace and good faith, will...