Everyone thinks Bush will finally locate his veto pen if Democrats pass growth-killing tax hikes.
President Clinton has yet to unholster his veto pen, though he is threatening again albeit reluctantly.
Poland's europhile President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, also opposes the moves and could wield his veto.
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Last year, Clinton vetoed similar legislation, and the Senate failed to override his veto.
"This is a prescription for chaos and confusion, " Bush said, explaining his veto of the legislation.
An independent who voted for Bush in 2004, Altier said she disagrees with his veto of the SCHIP bill.
But Bush slapped down that measure, and Congress couldn't muster up enough votes to override his veto.
Romney himself has boasted that he exercised his veto authority as Governor of Massachussets 844 times.
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But before the president can use his veto, Republicans will have to agree on a single bill to send him.
Because of his veto, state agencies right here in Iowa and across America have been forced to turn away needy families.
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In 1789, in France, the Third Estate proclaimed itself a National Assembly and refused to let the king keep his veto.
But Democrats frankly don't know what the president will accept and that's why they'll be watching his veto message this week very closely.
In gold writing on purple parchment, the 10th-century Holy Roman Emperor Otto I asserts his veto power over the election of new pontiffs.
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Governments and the EU are busily drafting the text of a minor new treaty agreed at December's summit, where Mr Cameron famously cast his veto.
To avoid using his veto power, Mr Ramos-Horta says he sent the laws back to parliament instead and called for them to be made clearer.
The German government has denied reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to cancel next month's EU summit unless Mr Cameron lifts his veto threat.
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"I believe that the taxpayers of the state of New Jersey have earned and deserve broad-based tax relief now, " wrote Mr. Christie in his veto message.
President Bush appears to have enough support to win his fight over children's health insurance but that will not stop Democrats from trying to overturn his veto.
Obama could have capitalized on this fact not only to justify his veto, but to force the subject of Hezbollah control over Lebanon onto the UN agenda.
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Sir Gus describes his veto - used to block tribunal findings that minutes should be released - was a "nuclear weapon" but admits to having to use it.
Christie then took out his veto pen and started cutting.
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Mr Cameron used his veto last month to opt out of the treaty, arguing that the UK needed to keep its authority over financial services in the City of London.
Under the Line Item Veto Act, Congress had to help the president in his exercise of his veto by highlighting, in the budget bill, tax breaks that benefited fewer than 101 people.
In his veto message, Mr. Christie called the Democrats' bill "lopsided" in not recognizing the concerns of small businesses paying for the wage increase and said that it would "jeopardize" New Jersey's efforts to recover economically.
Ford also didn't flinch when the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation tightening plunged the U.S. into its worst economic downturn since the 1930s. (Sadly, the gains against inflation--the rate had fallen almost three-fourths by the time Ford left office--were lost, and then some, under President Jimmy Carter.) And, unlike the current White House occupant, President Ford readily used his veto pen on excessive spending bills and other legislation he thought harmful.
But Bush, who wants flexibility to hire and fire, says that could trigger his first veto.
President Bush has the votes to sustain his promised veto of such restrictions.
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