Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Although Romney has declined to say whether he will veto the bill, Ann Dufresne, a spokeswoman from Travaglini’s office, said Friday that Travaglini “feels that the bar has been raised...
...Wednesday, Democratic leaders promised they would act quickly to support the bill. The Associated Press reported that Travaglini predicted the bill would have the two-thirds support necessary for passing the bill over the Governor’s veto, but has since revised his statements, saying he meant only the State Senate would have that majority...
...infamous memo” was not forgotten, however. According to a January 1993 article in the Economist, Vice President Al Gore ’69’s decision to veto Summers’ bid to chair the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton Administration was a direct result of the memo—and the Journal’s Alan Murray, who has since become an assistant managing editor at the paper, says that most of Summers’ image problems can be traced back to that one incident...
...getting the Council to pass the sort of resolution Washington wants are negligible. President Putin has signaled Russia is in Tehran's corner on this one, and China's $30 billion investment in Iran's oil and natural gas fields make it a relative certainty that Beijing would veto any resolution designed to impose sanctions or otherwise isolate Tehran...
...Simpson verdict last week not only overshadowed Powell's barnstorming will-he-or-won't-he book tour but also distracted national attention from the President's veto of a congressional budget proposal, the Republican plan to cut Medicare and the strenuous antics of all the other real, imagined or longed-for candidates for the presidency, most of whom are not getting all that much attention anyway. But the question on the mind of politicos was not who planted a certain glove but whether the verdict will spur a white backlash that could affect the presidential campaign--and especially...