The House and Senate passed the bill by comfortable margins but not with the two-thirds majorities required to override a veto. The House voted 235 to 193 yesterday to override Bush, falling short of the threshold and negating the need for a Senate override attempt.
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President Bush vetoed a $124 billion measure yesterday that would have funded overseas military operations but required him to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as early as July, escalating the most serious confrontation between the White House and Congress over war policy in a generation. ... The long-anticipated veto,
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The word veto does not appear in the United States Constitution, but Article I requires every bill, order, resolution or other act of legislation by the Congress of the United States to be presented...
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Four years to the day after standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier and declaring "major combat operations" in Iraq were over, President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a war-spending bill that calls for the start of a withdrawal of American combat troops from the conflict. ... The veto is the second of Bush's presidency.
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Congressional Democrats vowed Wednesday to pressure Republican lawmakers to join them in an effort to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would expand a popular children's health insurance program. ... Pelosi says she's praying Bush won't veto bill...
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Bush Vows to Veto Bill to Withdraw U.S. Troops From Iraq by Fall 2008, President Bush vows to veto a measure pushed through the House by Democrats on Friday that would order the commander-in-chief to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2008. ... Bush will veto the bill, White House spokesman Tony Snow...
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THE US President, George Bush, has vetoed for a second time a bill that would have allowed federal funding for stem-cell research using unwanted embryos, setting the stage for the issue to become a fault line in next year's presidential election. ... Mr Bush announced his veto to a roomful of supporters.
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