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Introduced in February by State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, the bill immediately generated controversy—Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney vowed to veto it, arguing that creating embryos for scientific purposes could destroy human lives. Yet the bill sailed through the House and the Senate, easily surpassing the two-thirds margin necessary to override Romney’s veto...
...ambiguous relationship between the ACSR and the CCSR, resulting from the CCSR’s veto power, continued throughout the 1980s and through to today...
Although the majority of the House supported the research initiative, the bill still lacks the two-thirds majority necessary to override an expected veto from Bush...
...many expect that the Senate will approve the bill with a margin large enough to overrule Bush’s expected veto—which would be the first veto ever in his presidency...
...don’t like veto threats, and I don’t like statements about overriding veto threats,” said the Senate’s chief sponsor of the bill, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., at a news conference. “I think if it really comes down to a showdown, we will have enough in the United States Senate to override a veto...