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Last week, the U.S. used its veto power against the will of all the other members of the UN Security Council in rejecting a resolution condemning Israel's illegal actions in East Jerusalem. Despite all this, Levitin questions Clinton's pro-Israeli policies...
...special-interest loopholes. That same year, Lott and Congressman Jack Kemp persuaded Reagan not to support the Republican Senate's efforts to reduce the cost of living allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts and the "new taxes" Bush had forsworn...
...House prepares to once again take up a bill banning abortions using the controversial partial-birth technique. So far, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says he's counted 62 'yes' votes, enough for Senate passage but still five short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. An opportunity to renew the debate opened up after after Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers who was frequently used to support President Clinton's assurances the procedure is uncommon, said he lied about just how often the abortions occur. The admission, the GOP believes, gives...
...possible before giving in. Russia has begun to weaken, but still remains officially opposed to NATO's eastward move. "We are still negatively disposed," Primakov said after the meeting. But, in a significant departure from earlier claims, he added that Russia now wants only "a voice, not a veto" in the NATO alliance. Primakov has taken a hard line toward NATO expansion ever since taking over Andrei Kozyrev, whom Russian critics had accused of being too soft toward the West. But his contention that that NATO expansion would trigger a wave of communist-nationalist outrage that will weaken reform...
...will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime pay and compensatory time off for long hours. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had opened the meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third...