Word: vetoes
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...quick to recognize the other breakaway republics, including Croatia, whose regime discriminates against local Serbs. But the Community stiff-armed Macedonia. Why? Because Greece objects to the name and exercised a veto in the councils of the E.C. Macedonia is the birthplace of Alexander the Great and the name of Greece's northern province. Therefore Athens thinks it has a 2,400-year-old trademark on the word...
...stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote to overturn the legislation, which bars abortion counseling by nonphysician workers in federally funded family-planning clinics. The vote...
...more employees to grant 12 weeks of unpaid leave for workers to care for new babies or sick relatives. Democrats denied they had revived the bill to push the President into a corner with the charge that he had deserted his family values theme. In issuing his veto, Bush proposed an alternative that would provide $1,200 in tax credits to businesses for each employee who takes time off for family emergencies. The Senate's subsequent 68-to-31 vote marked the upper chamber's first veto override of the Bush presidency. But it may have just been drama...
...Senate bill proposes to raise $8 billionthrough extended real estate taxes and capitalgains taxes to pay for planned "enterprise zones."Bush has said that he will veto any bill thatraises taxes...
Bill Cahir, staff assistant of the Senate LaborCommittee chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy'54-'56 (D-Mass.), said he believed the Presidentwould follow through on his promise of a veto...