The order does not go into effect until April 19, and is subject to Presidential veto.
Afterward, Senate Majority Trent Lott said there is a chance a presidential veto will not prevail.
We obviously are running into the presidential veto and not being able to expand it.
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Last year, attempts to shift the cost back to the Treasury were stymied by a presidential veto threat.
The opposition has enough votes to deprive the government of the majority it needs to override a presidential veto.
Never mind Wednesday's presidential veto on expanded federal funding of stem cell lines.
If lawmakers do have enough support to override a presidential veto, Martinez Cuenca says his group will still seek retribution.
They didn't want another presidential veto, and ultimately, you know, they could decide to renegotiate the whole thing this summer.
Democrats dismissed the bills, which had no chance of clearing the Senate or surviving a presidential veto, as ideological showboating.
In approving the measure to fund the war in Iraq in two installments, the House defied a presidential veto threat.
And with the race for the White House now begun, the Democrats would love an unpopular presidential veto from Mr Bush.
Of course, actually getting the legislation repealed with a Democratic Senate and a presidential veto pen is extremely unlikely, at least until 2012.
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As for passing legislation, Republicans would need to reach compromises with Obama because they would not have the votes to overcome a Presidential veto.
Lott said June 1 that he had been told the nuclear waste bill had more than the 67 votes to override a presidential veto.
Dole also said the threatened presidential veto of a tax bill recently passed by Congress would hurt farmers because it contains several farm-friendly provisions.
But a presidential veto would have triggered a showdown with the powerful and media-savvy steelworkers that could have damaged Vice-President Al Gore's presidential hopes.
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That legislation, of course, would need to move through the normal process and ultimately passage by both House and Senate, again subject to a Presidential veto.
Despite this warning, Democrats insisted on delaying the bill by including an arbitrary deadline for withdrawal from Iraq, a provision they knew would guarantee a presidential veto.
After pledging to overturn a presidential veto on a bill to expand children's health care, when it came down to it, Democratic lawmakers just didn't have the votes.
Mr Bush, who has yet to use the presidential veto even when presented with absurdities like a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, should not tolerate any more follies.
Specter and Kerry believe as many as 75 senators may support federal money for embryonic stem cell research, ultimately enough to override a potential presidential veto of such funding.
Even if Republicans were to regain both the House of Representatives and the Senate this November, nobody thinks they will come close to holding enough seats to override a presidential veto.
In a letter sent to legislators last week, he vowed to recommend a presidential veto if legislative language and spending cuts promoted by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin were approved.
To protect his back, Mr Gore recently promised that bills damaging to the trade unions would receive a presidential veto, and that companies with poor labour records would be denied federal contracts.
House Democrats defied a certain presidential veto and approved an Iraqi troop-withdrawal measure just hours after the White House released a report finding the Baghdad government has failed to meet several key benchmarks.
However, the government does not have the necessary two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto, and thus may have to water down initiatives in order to garner enough support to pass its pro-business policies.
The long-term strategic interests of both Canada and the United States are better served if all parties involved heed the analysis under way in the State Department rather than resort to legislative fiat or a presidential veto.
Or will he insist upon nothing less than the Global Protection System he asked Congress to support just five months ago and make it clear that alternatives falling short of that standard face a certain presidential veto?
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