Word: vetoes
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...exceeds $350 million annually. China is Burma's leading arms supplier and trading partner and has just won the right to build a major oil pipeline there. Beijing's support for abusive governments would be troubling under any circumstances, but its influence is magnified because it is using its veto on the U.N. Security Council to block international sanctions...
FIREWORKS Those looking for sparks from greenhorn Fred Thompson during the Oct. 9 debate in Dearborn, Mich., were instead treated to a front-runners' spat over--of all things--the line-item veto...
ROMNEY: It's a nice line, but it's baloney. Look, we're both guys that are in favor of keeping spending down and keeping taxes down. The place we differ is on the line-item veto. I'd have never gone to the Supreme Court [like Giuliani] and said it's unconstitutional. I'm in favor of the line-item veto to make sure that the President is able to help get out pork and waste...
GIULIANI: You have to be honest with people. And you can't fool all of the people all of the time. The line-item veto is unconstitutional. You don't get to believe about it; the Supreme Court has ruled on it. So I took President Clinton to court, and I beat him. And I don't think it's a bad idea to have a Republican presidential candidate who actually has beat President Clinton at something. Proponents of the line-item veto claim it allows a President to remove congressionalpork projects...
...Graeme, whose sister suffered worse brain injuries when their family SUV hit a patch of black ice, was making an appeal for President Bush to reconsider his veto of legislation that would have expanded the program designed to provide health coverage to children of the working poor - those who are too rich to qualify for Medicaid but unable to afford private insurance...