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...believe it comes close to balancing in 10 years," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The White House, which plans to market Clinton's ideas as the more humane route to fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising so much so soon.TIME's Karen Tumultysays he moved too late to have any chance at influencing the GOP. "Clinton picked the moment when he had the least leverage in the process," she says...
President Clinton added another G.O.P. proposal to his expanding list of veto targets: the House's rewrite of the federal Clean Water Act. The President claimed that the bill's looser environmental and antipollution standards would turn back years of progress and send water quality "straight down the drain." The measure's backers-it still must get past a skeptical Senate-said the President's veto threat revealed that he was a captive of "environmental extremists...
...would need to clarify whom nato is going to defend itself against," he said. "If one has Russia in mind, it is obvious that this would mean creating new dividing lines in Europe." Washington, however, remains adamant that NATO has the right to accept new members without a Russian veto...
Despite a House vote Thursday to lift the Bosnia arms embargo and a personal plea from the Bosnian prime minister in Washington today, the White House said President Clinton would promptly veto the measure if it reached his desk. "We don't believe the answer to the conflict in Bosnia is to escalate the war," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. The Administration believes that lifting the embargo would anger France, Britain and other countries with peacekeeping troops in the region, andtrigger a commitment of 25,000 American troopsto helpevacuate the peacekeepersand protect the Muslims from a predicted new Serbian...
President Clinton made good on a threat to usehis first veto to rescind $16.4 billion in spending cuts, prompting Republican cries that he had abdicated fiscal responsibility. At a Rose Garden ceremony celebrating the Drug-Free Schools Program, which the bill would have halved, the President said: "I cannot in good consciencesign a bill that cuts educationto save pet congressional projects." Clinton last monthhad asked Congress to restore $1.4 billion in proposed cutsin education, crime prevention, environment, housing and job training programs, and to offset them with cuts in construction and government overhead.TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays Clinton...