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Last year, Roemer gained national attention for twice vetoing what would have been the nation's most restrictive abortion laws. Before the legislature passed those bills, Roemer had vowed to "veto any bill that did not respect the life of the mother and honor the victims of rape and incest...
...speech, he called the proposed Louisiana law a "monster of a bill" and promised to veto it "if it ever reared its ugly head on my desk [again...
Roemer also recounted how he wielded the veto to block record a labeling bill--one that called for mandatory labeling with legislatively designed standards that placed stiff economic penalities on violators...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war, and it would not have much impact for several years. The line- item veto, a scalpel wielded by 41 Governors, might be more difficult to use on the highly complex federal budget...
...countries -- to phase out trade barriers to textiles and apparel. Last month, however, the U.S. Congress approved a protectionist bill that would further limit textile-and-apparel imports and impose new quotas on such European products as Armani suits and Benetton sweaters. The bill, which President Bush plans to veto, would not only undermine the U.S. negotiating position in GATT but also increase the average American family's annual clothing costs by $750 in a decade. While the House vote fell short of the two-thirds needed to override the veto, the U.S. textile industry still hopes for an eventual...