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Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, but environmentalists will be marking it with trepidation. Currently on the House agenda are bills which wouldrole back numerous federal regulations that safeguard the environment. President Clinton echoed the same sentiments this morning, vowing to veto any legislation passed by Congress which does not protect public health, safety or the environment...
Hours before the Oklahoma City bombing dwarfed partisan politics, President Clinton launched an attack on the GOP, insisting he would not be "blackmailed" by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's threat to attach GOP bills to budgetary measures that Clinton would have difficulty vetoing. "A strategy to sort of put me in a box would be an error because I will still exercise the power of the presidency in the interest of the American people," Clinton said at an Oval Office photo-op, reprising his Wednesday press conference theme that the president is "relevant." If Gingrich tied controversial "Contract With America...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...
Senate Democratic leaders are warning that their Republican colleagues plan to roll several major"Contract With America" reformsinto a giant package this summer, making it difficult for President Clinton to veto any single set of reforms. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today told a small group of reporters that the Senate GOP would combine its upcoming versions of tax cuts, spending cuts, welfare reform and other initiatives into a "reconciliation bill" by August or September. Tumulty says the claim -- so far unsubstantiated by GOP leaders -- is probably on target: theGOP...
...Senate voted 69 to 29 to give President Clinton a prerogative he and previous Chief Executives have long desired: a line-item veto over spending legislation. Opponents of the G.O.P.-sponsored measure argued that it gives away too much congressional power and may even be unconstitutional...