Word: vetoes
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...Grendel's won a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a Massachusetts law that gave churches and schools veto power over liquor license issuance within 500 feet of their property...
...which oversees the NEA, chimed in yesterday with a promise to reauthorize the agency, a move which would make it officially eligible to receive federal money. In addition to strong bipartisan support in the Senate, the House crusade to eliminate the NEA also faces the prospect of a Presidential veto, a move the White House says is certain if NEA funds are withheld from the spending legislation...
BILL CLINTON Court allows line-item veto. Now we'll see if Trent Lott gets ship-building dough for his district...
...crosses party lines: Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York announced last week that he'd fight any attempt to weaken the rules. And even if Congress passes legislation to overturn the rules, opponents would probably be unable to muster enough votes to override a presidential veto...
...petitioned the United Nations to try Pol Pot for the deaths of some 2 million Cambodians, the measure must first gain the approval of the Security Council. That could prove tricky since China, a strong supporter of the Khmer Rouge regime, could easily block the trial by wielding its veto power. Trickier still: confirming that Pol Pot has actually been captured by rebel Khmer Rouge soldiers. The latest sighting, reported by a top Cambodian military official this weekend at Khmer Rouge headquarters, is difficult to take any more seriously than the contradictory reports of the past two weeks...