Word: vetoes
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...House Judiciary Committee last week voted 23 to 11 to approve it. The showdown comes on the House floor next week. Two prominent N.R.A. life members have greatly enhanced the bill's chances: Ronald Reagan endorsed it last month, and President Bush has said he would not veto the plan if it became part of his omnibus anticrime package...
...second clash in as many months between the governor and the predominantly Democratic legislature, many Republican senators fought to uphold Weld's veto of a bill which would roll back his cabinet member's salaries from $85,000 to the lower levels that the Dukakis administration paid...
Havern pointed out that even though the Republicans may have succeeded in sustaining the veto, recent polls suggest that the public strongly disagrees with Weld on this issue and that the publicity may cost him dearly in terms of his popularity rating...
...AFTERMATH of Bush's war, Congress should take steps to reassert its war powers. Lawmakers should start by amending the well-meaning but unworkable War Powers Resolution, the legislation enacted by a frustrated post-Vietnam Congress over Nixon's veto...
Last year all 55 Democratic Senators voted as one in a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem: a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas." Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for a bill that can get signed." Translation...