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Arizona Gov. Brewer Vetoes Presidential 'Birther' Bill
By not in system - AOL NewsPHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot. The bill would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement. Opponents had warned the bill would give another black eye to Arizona after last year's controversy over the state's illegal immigration enforcement law. Brewer said in her veto letter that she was troubled that the bill empowered Arizona's secretary of state to judge the qualifications of ...
White House Threatens Veto of War Funding Bill
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 1) -- The White House has promised to veto a House war funding bill over proposed cuts to education reform programs. The move marks an unusually public clash with Obama's top Democratic allies in the House, who proposed cutting $800 million from programs such as the Education Department's showcase Race to the Top grant initiative. They want to use the money to help pay for a $15 billion plan to avoid teacher layoffs and pay for college grants. The veto threat came as the House began debate on a war funding bill needed to pay for the president's decision to send 30,000 ...
Sarah Palin's $28 Million Veto of Stimulus Funds Overturned by Alaskan Legislature
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTwo weeks after Sarah Palin left office, newly minted Alaskan Gov. Sean Parnell has a message for the federal government: We'll take that $28 million now, thank you. On Monday, the state legislature voted to overturn Palin's rejection of $28 million in federal stimulus dollars for energy spending. The vote was 45-14, just meeting the three-fourths majority the Alaskan legislature requires for a veto override. ...
House Republicans Call for Obama Veto of Spending Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House passed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which combines nine of the 12 annual appropriations into one piece of legislation. The measure was made necessary by Congress's failure to pass the funding bills last year. Despite President Barack Obama's call for spending restraint, however, the omnibus contains some 9,000 earmarks, which are spending items tucked into the legislation by individual members of Congress for pet projects in their districts. All but 16 Republicans voted against the measure, along with 20 Democrats, citing the recently passed $787 billion economic stimulus ...
War Funding Passes the Senate
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDefying a veto threat from President Bush, the Senate passed the supplemental appropriations bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, adding billions in extra spending that the White House rejects. The $165 billion measure passed by a veto-proof margin of 70-26 and heads back to the House, where its prospects are uncertain.Senators approved a $51 billion expansion of veterans' education benefits and an extension of unemployment benefits as part of the legislation. The bill also contains funding for various Federal agencies and programs, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Census ...
Bush Vetoes Farm Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn what is likely to prove an academic exercise, President Bush followed through on a threat and vetoed the recently passed 2008 Farm Bill. The $307 billion bill, officially titled the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008," extends many of the incentive and subsidy programs established in the 2002 Farm Bill in an era of rising food prices and farming incomes. The president cited both in his veto message to Congress.At a time of high food prices and record farm income, this bill lacks program reform and fiscal discipline. It continues subsidies for the wealthy and increases farm bill ...
One Veto Threatened, One Threat Withdrawn
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House issued a statement late today saying that President Bush has decided to veto the 2008 Farm Bill if it makes it to his desk in its current form and recommended that Congress pass a one-year extension of current farm policy to bridge the gap until the next Congress and Administration can consider another bill. Almost at the same, the White House said that the president would withdraw his threat to veto an bill containing a provision that would stop the government from filling the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to increase oil supply on the world market and lower ...
Bush Vetoes Waterboarding Ban
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyLater today, President Bush will veto legislation banning U.S. intelligence agents from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation methods. Along partisan lines, Congress passed a broad intelligence authorization bill last month which limited CIA interrogation techniques. Proponents claimed that the law merely brought CIA procedures in line with well-established military guidelines. However, the president concluded against such a parallel maneuver, citing the different circumstances under which the CIA employed interrogation techniques - that is, usually in a domestic setting ...
Veto of Defense Policy Bill Goes Unchallenged
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyHouse Democrats decided to pass on an expected override attempt of President Bush's veto of the Defense Policy bill. The bill will be sent instead to the House Armed Services Committee, where the provision to which the White House objected will be removed. The new bill will be introduced in the House and is expected to win passage by the end of the week.Late last month, the president vetoed the measure, angering House Democrats who complained that the White House never made it concerns about the bill known to them during negotiations. The Administration said that a component of the bill that ...
Bush Uses 'Pocket Veto' on Defense Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyEarlier today, the White House announced that President Bush would veto the Defense policy bill, a measure that directs the Pentagon on how and where to spend monies appropriated by Congress. Later, it clarified that the president would use a "pocket veto" on the bill rather than issue a conventional veto. A pocket veto is a tool used by presidents to kill bills by simply not signing them. The Constitution provides for the pocket veto in Article 1, Section 7.If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same ...
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