Word: vetoes
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...G.O.P. has had a rough month. But if Republicans think things will improve now that House Democrats have failed in their vote Thursday to override President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), they are in for a rude awakening...
...groups have had a field day running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-child commercials: adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes the President and members of his party for blocking the S-CHIP bill ("George Bush just vetoed Abby" intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the opening salvo in a wider appropriations battle. Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming - and expensive - spending bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...Putin arrives in Iran at a moment when the U.S. and its key European allies are pushing for a new round of sanctions aimed at persuading Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. But the likelihood of the U.N. Security Council approving new sanctions right now appears remote, given the veto power of China and Russia - both of whom differ substantially with the West on the nature of the problem with Iran, and on how to deal with...
...Supreme Court ruled (in Clinton v. New York City) that the veto, exercised in 1996 during Bill Clinton's presidency, was unconstitutional...
...that was only the first act in the Democrats’ operetta. Last week, President Bush vetoed a bill to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) by $35 billion over five years. Immediately, the Democrats yanked out the tissues. Reid called President Bush “heartless.” Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) moaned that “all [the President] cares about is war and more war.” And Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-MA) wailed, “the same President...