Word: vetoes
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Weld, a resident of Cambridge, has indicated he will veto any home-rule petition to maintain rent control. It remains to be seen whether the legislature would be able to override a gubernatorial veto...
...home rule petitions must overcome several obstacles before becoming law. They must not only be approved by the full legislature but also override the likely veto of Gov. William F. Weld...
...antiabortion measure they might prefer. Best of all, Gingrich could offer the amendment without fully expecting it to come to pass, with whatever messy, real-world consequences it might entail. Even if approved by both houses of Congress -- affording Gingrich the delicious spectacle of watching Clinton agonize over a veto -- constitutional amendments must be further approved by three-quarters of the states, a long and bumpy road where most of them stall...
...help of several other top aides, produced a memo one described as a "thought piece." The memo proposed that the President should attempt to govern from a "forceful center," working with Republicans who want to share the middle on matters like welfare reform, health care and the line-item veto, but challenging as radicals any who propose ideas too far to Clinton's right...
...Asian economic summit in Indonesia, President Clinton wasn't neglecting domestic politics. In the wake of sweeping Republican victories in this month's elections, the President again let it be known that he hoped to cooperate with the G.O.P. bipartisan measures like welfare reform, the line-item veto and tax and spending cuts. Amid signs of Republican chafing in the Senate, he once more called on Hill leaders to approve the gatt treaty at the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session of Congress...