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...Wednesday, April 10, President Clinton vetoed a proposed abortion bill which would have served to ban late-term abortions known as "partial-birth" abortions. It is the position of the Harvard Republican Club that President Clinton's veto was both a revolting and extraordinarily callous attempt to pander to the far-left and extremist abortion proponents. This pandering serves only to protect Clinton from backlash from the left wing of the Democratic Party, rather than to protect the unborn from an egregiously gruesome form of death...
Lewis's agreement to review randomization marks the first time he has approved a bill under the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act. This act, passed by the Undergraduate Council in February, allows Lewis to approve or veto certain bills passed by the council...
First Bill Clinton agreed that his CIA director could have near veto authority over the appointments of intelligence chiefs in the Pentagon and other government agencies. It was even more remarkable to watch the Senate Intelligence Committee trying to ladle out still more power for the CIA chief by proposing that he control the entire $28 billion annual intelligence budget, most of which heretofore was under the control of the Department of Defense. It didn't take a master spy to find out the winner in this game: John Deutch, only the second director of Central Intelligence to hold Cabinet...
...little more time to work things out with someone who has a better sense of the past could never harm a piece of legislation. If the council members still preferred their original legislation to the compromise, they were welcome to vote on it and receive the symbolic veto...
...nomination in March, Dole was supposed to return to his promontory on Capitol Hill where, as a modern-day, legislative Zeus, he would hurl bill after bill down Pennsylvania Avenue at a cowering Bill Clinton, who would either have to sign on to the Republican agenda or become a veto-happy obstructionist. By convention time, voters would know who was boss...