Word: vetoes
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...union said Solidarity won almost all the seats it was allowed to compete for, indicating the opposition may have veto power in the two-chamber legislature...
Bush thinks such caveats are unnecessary and could still scuttle the program. Republicans are calling the Byrd resolution a "sour-grape amendment" from those Democrats who lost the vote to kill the whole deal. But the Senate vote, 72 to 27, provided a large enough margin to override a veto. Whether the plane ever takes off or not, the Japan-bashing rhetoric remains in full flight...
...draw too much attention to this approach of taking what you can get from the Democrats in Congress," says a Bush adviser outside Government, "they're going to attract more fire from the conservatives." Instead, Bush will soon emphasize his toughness on two issues dear to the right: his veto strategy to "hold the line" on the minimum wage and his plan to build more prison cells. As a wry college coach once put it, the trick is to keep the alumni "sullen but not mutinous." A few outright partisan victories might help...
...marriage. "When you get home at 8:30, the last thing you want to do is get into business." It is equally unlikely that Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Wendy Gramm and her husband Senator Phil Gramm, famed for the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit limits, ponder the line-item veto during their off hours...
...rare bipartisan alliance of Minnesota leaders, who last week declared their intent to send Davis packing. Said Governor Rudy Perpich: "This will be all-out war as far as the state of Minnesota is concerned." The politicians have already begun drafting measures that would include empowering state officials to veto hostile deals that would cause an adverse economic impact...