Word: vetoes
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...Despite Bush?s recent assaults on environmental protection, he insists that Gore would have been no better. The president killed tougher standards for arsenic in drinking water, but the Clinton-Gore team only approved them after the election to "set up" Bush, Nader says. And while Gore might have vetoed Congress? repeal of job safety rules, he claims, the veto would have been overridden by conservatives in Congress. That?s far from certain. What is unequivocal is Nader?s newfound love of electoral politics. In next year?s Congressional elections, he hopes to field a slate of Green candidates...
...legislation, sponsored an identical bill in 1999 requiring law enforcement officials to treat a fetus as a full-fledged person. The 1999 version also passed easily in the House but ran out of time in the Senate. At the time, President Clinton, siding with pro-choice activists, vowed to veto the bill. Today, President Bush has promised to sign...
...overall budget, Bush - through Dick Cheney - had unsheathed his veto pen when it came to any increases in discretionary spending beyond 4 percent. Now (and this is the sort of newfound flexibility that goes with a shrinking tax cut) Bush told CNN that he's "keeping all options open...
Similarly, negotiations with police and administrators are carried out in front of the entire group-with any student free to speak up and veto the negotiations...
...publicly maintain the farce of One China for diplomatic reasons, but that does not mean that the democratically elected government of Taiwan is any less legitimate, nor does it have any less right to defend itself. The U.S. should not give China veto power over the quality of Taiwan’s defenses...