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...Sununu above using double-dealing and deception to achieve the President's goals. In March he told Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden that Bush would veto the clean-air bill the Senate was debating if it included an expensive amendment. Meanwhile, he privately told Idaho Republican Steve Symms just the opposite. Symms had favored the amendment because he hoped it would trigger a veto of the bill, which Symms opposed as too tough on polluting industries. Sununu led Symms to believe the amendment would only make things worse because Bush was inclined to sign the clean-air bill with or without...
...assistance seemed likely to be held up still further by a dispute about -- of all irrelevant subjects -- abortion. The Senate had added to the omnibus bill a provision permitting the District of Columbia to use local public money to fund abortions, despite warnings that it would prompt Bush to veto the whole thing. Faced with that prospect, which could have delayed aid to Panama and Nicaragua for a month, the Senate agreed to delete the abortion provisions from the bill before it is sent to the President...
Bush's administration does nothing about the growing difficulties facing women like homelessness, children living in poverty, single parent households and discrimination in the workplace. Bush even promised to veto a bill that would require large firms to grant maternity and paternity leave--essential benefits in the era of the working family. Barbara Bush's solution of "volunteerism"--her "thousand points of light"--is an option only of the upper middle class...
...commissioner of laboratory animals, Wiles will be responsible for the inspection and registration of all institutions conducting animal research in the city. In addition, Wiles will have the power to veto certain appointments to animal care committees at those institutions...
...governments of Australia and Thailand, and by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Under some of these plans, the Khmer Rouge would even be permitted to serve in an interim coalition, pending elections. In all of them, Pol Pot's party has been given effective veto power -- with predictable results. A peace conference in Jakarta earlier this year failed basically because of Khmer Rouge opposition. Says Cambodia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sok An: "If the international community continues to allow the Khmer Rouge to thwart the will of the conference, then we cannot have an agreement...