Word: vetoes
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...club must approve each new member by a two-thirds majority, according to the e-mails. But any single Isis member can veto a punch with a “‘black ball’ in the final round,” according to the e-mails...
...That veto cannot be overridden...
BILL CLINTON Line-item veto makes him the first Prez with the "power of the pen" (if it holds up in court...
...through deprivation and cruelty and loss?they are always, always Americans, and different, better and stronger than those who would destroy us." JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona senator, urging his colleagues to support a bill restricting the treatment of terrorism suspects that passed 90-9 last week despite a veto threat from the White House...
...Senate version includes a provision, adamantly opposed by the White House, that limits how the military can interrogate prisoners captured in the war on terror. The House version didn't include that provision, and lawmakers there don't want to send Bush a bill he has promised to veto. But senators, particularly Arizona's John McCain, have been insistent on the provision staying the bill, setting up a fight with the White House...