Word: vetoes
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...government in sole consultation with the Prime Minister. That makes it unlikely that Yeltsin will offer a post to anyone in Zhirinovsky's camp. If Yeltsin doesn't like a piece of legislation, Deputies will have to corral a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override his veto...
...strike could spread a big radioactive cloud over the peninsula, miss hidden weapons or start a devastating war between North and South Korea. A more practical tactic would be the imposition of economic sanctions by the United Nations -- but even if China, long friendly to the North, did not veto an embargo, Pyongyang might feel cornered and lash...
...favor of spending cuts. In addition, more than half of these newcomers supported $90 billion in deeper cuts as proposed by Rep. Tim Penny (D-Minn.). A larger percentage of novice Democrats supported the doomed bill than did veteran Democrats. And their support for a partial line-item veto for the president may eventually appeal to a majority in the chamber...
There were many previous signals that the partisan logjam had loosened. The legislators cleaned up some other long-pending business, passing bills to make voter registration easier and mandating family leaves for workers; earlier measures had been blocked by George Bush vetoes. Congress passed the two big measures Clinton fought hard for: a five-year, $500 billion deficit-reduction plan and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, the lawmakers' work did not draw even one presidential veto -- the first time that has happened since...
...Part of the reason is simply that for the first time in a dozen years, the same party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. No longer did legislators design measures, like an early version of campaign-finance reform, to provoke a President into casting politically embarrassing vetoes. Paradoxically, though, campaign reform is being delayed by the absence of any veto threat; Congress is moving cautiously because it knows that almost anything it passes will become law. In the beginning, Clinton's economic-stimulus plan was killed by a Republican filibuster; deficit reduction passed only after...