Word: vetoes
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President Bush made clear his lack of commitment to the health care crisis last Wednesday when he vetoed the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). In a country where the number of people lacking health insurance rose in 2006 for the sixth year in a row to 47 million–almost one in six Americans–and the number of uninsured children stands at 8.7 million, this veto is inexcusable. SCHIP was founded in 1997 to help provide subsidized insurance for poor children. As the number of uninsured adults has climbed...
...Kosovo and cede control to the U.N., provided the province legally remained part of Serbia. But that condition has proved unacceptable to ethnic Albanians, who make up 90% of Kosovo's population. A subsequent U.N. plan to grant Kosovo full but "supervised" independence foundered on Russian threats of a veto in the U.N. Security Council. So last summer, the U.S., Russia and the European Union decided to give the two sides until December to make their own deal on Kosovo's status. But after a late September parley in New York produced few results, even the idea of talking appears...
...could complicate the E.U.'s appointed task of helping to administer an independent Kosovo. "It is Europe that would pay the price if the status process fails," the E.U.'s Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has stated, adding that the issue should be settled "not by unilateral declarations or unilateral veto threats, but by effective and responsible multilateralism." But multilateralists have to pull together, so officials from the U.S., France and the U.K. will be pressing the view that European unity on Kosovo is more important than the principle of opposing unilateral declarations...
...diseases. Scientists believe experiments with these genetically engineered stem cells could lead to breakthroughs for the treatment of life-threatening conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. In 2005, the Mass. legislature passed a bill over former Gov. Mitt Romney’s veto that expanded stem cell research by removing the requirement of approval by the local district attorney. But many scientists have found that the legislation actually hindered the possibilities of research by imposing regulatory controls on the acquisition of ova for therapeutic cloning. According to Kevin Casey, the University?...
...faithful - of all creeds and political affiliations - barraged the White House last week, imploring the President to reconsider his veto threat. Our efforts did not bear fruit. But I wonder if, before he put his veto stamp on that legislation, the President thought back to that little meeting in a Baptist Sunday school classroom, not far from where he grew up. I wonder if he remembered that day, what we talked about, what was in his heart, and how much hope there was in the room. If he knows his Bible, the President should remember that Jesus said to suffer...