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Senate votes to overrule Clinton on line-item veto of military budget (Reuters...
...rival, minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, this week will come out in favor of the Portman-Kerrey bill. Proponents are predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. "We're probably going to get killed on this," says a White House official. That doesn't seem to faze Rubin, whose stubbornness stands out in a city of compromise...
That is why some scientists are so distressed by President Clinton's line-item veto last week of the $30 million that Congress had allocated for the Clementine II project next year. Clementine is a spacecraft that was to be launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also...
Reasons for the veto, an Administration spokesman explained, included concern that the project might violate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, that it was a thinly disguised supplement to other Pentagon projects and more logically belonged in the NASA budget. Another--but unspoken--reason, say scientists familiar with the budget debate, is the "giggle factor," the tendency of many in government to scoff at the danger posed by asteroids...
...been approved earlier by the Senate. But there it fell two votes short of the 60 it would have needed to block a filibuster threatened by Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Even if the proposal makes it all the way to the President's desk, Bill Clinton is likely to veto...