Word: vetoes
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...Alma? There was never a veto. Powell never asked...
...vote for the deal. Otherwise, the rift between the President and his party could become irreparable just as he launches his re-election campaign. With Democrats wary of taking Clinton at his word, he can't expect support for a compromise until he proves his willingness to veto G.O.P. legislation...
...collision course over balancing the federal budget. The House and Senate sent President Clinton a bill adding $67 billion to the nation's $4.9 trillion debt ceiling, and will probably follow it with a measure extending government spending for a few weeks. However, Clinton is expected to veto the bills because of extraneous provisions he finds unacceptable. The likely result is a brief shutdown of nonessential government operations as the two sides find a compromise on the spending measure. One possible stopgap solution to the impasse over the debt ceiling: "borrowing" from the pension and savings of federal employees...
...first such vote since the Supreme Court decriminalized most abortions in 1973, the House voted 288 to 139 to ban a very rare form of late-term abortion that anti-abortion legislators described as particularly brutal to fetuses. Despite the likelihood of a Senate filibuster and a presidential veto, abortion-rights advocates said they feared that the House bill, which would impose criminal penalties on doctors, could presage the passage of even more restrictive legislation...
...budget by 2002. Included are G.O.P. overhauls of Medicare and Medicaid and the party's $245 billion tax cut. Unless the plan is significantly changed in a conference committee, where remaining differences between the two chambers must still be ironed out, the legislation faces an almost certain presidential veto. Protracted wrangling between President Clinton and the G.O.P. congressional leadership is expected to begin shortly-with the 1996 elections very much in mind...