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SOMETIME this week, President Bush will be formally presented with the Congress-approved Family and Medical Leave Act. The President has already declared that he will veto this bill, which provides employees of large companies an assurance of three months of unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption or serious illness...
Last week Owens told his colleagues that the victims are owed "compensation and an apology." The House agreed, approving a $100 million fund to aid affected families in five Southwestern states. But even if the Senate goes along, the Justice Department has urged President Bush to veto the measure as "another entitlement program." Udall, now 70 and practicing law in Santa Fe, is writing a book on Government callousness in the atomic age. The Bush Administration may provide him with another chapter...
...making the process dignified, or at least orderly. He is also trying to buy time for the reforms he hopes will induce most of the country to remain. The rules that the Supreme Soviet has imposed for secession, however, are rigged to give the central authorities a veto over the will of the people around the periphery. The result has been to radicalize even relatively moderate nationalists. The more Gorbachev tries to slow down their departure, the more determined they are to speed...
...President Bush has pledged to veto the legislation. In doing so, Mr. Pro-Family himself will veto the happiness and stability of thousands of American families--our families...
Example: the Senate in late January sought to override Bush's veto of a bill that would have allowed Chinese students who feared persecution in their homeland in the wake of last year's Tiananmen massacre to remain in the U.S. The bill had passed the Senate overwhelmingly, and most of his advisers recommended that Bush not invest his prestige in an uphill battle to uphold his veto. Sununu strongly disagreed. He persuaded Bush to put a full-court press on every Republican Senator, promising to protect the students by Executive Order without offending the prickly Chinese leadership. What...