President of veto on cable Bill
Officials of the Bush administration said today that President Bush would veto a law to regulate cable television prices on Saturday.But the top Republicans on Capitol Hill, they do not know if they vote for retaining the president veto.
Although the Congress is meeting this weekend, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the minority leader of the Senate, he did not expect a vote on the veto of a parent Monday.
The Congress has sustained each of the 35 Mr. Bush’s veto so far, but the cable bill passed the House of Representatives and Senate by wide margins. In the Senate, the Bush administration must have at least nine legislators change their votes to prevail. Deadline for Bush –
The president has until midnight Saturday to veto the measure or it is in force, without his signature. Even if it has promised to veto the bill, he waited for the final moments in an attempt to support Republican long enough to sustain his veto.
Earlier this week, some White House officials was the possibility that the President must repent and sign the bill for cable, because a veto was likely to be replaced. But the political cost of such a conversion was high, and the chairman of the senior consultant for a long time against the bill on the general principle that excessive regulation.
Parliament passed the bill September 17 by a vote of 280 to 128, and the Senate followed a week later, by a vote of 74 to 25 Meeting with Republicans
Amid nervous votes counted and endless rumors, James A. Baker 3d, the chief of General Staff of the White House, the Capitol today went to seek the support of eight Republican senators voted for the bill last week.
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