A belated first veto carries its own costsLetter from Washington

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: July 24, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Sheryl Gay Stolberg
International Herald Tribune
07-24-2006
Of all the powers of the presidency, the veto is among the most potent.Franklin D. Roosevelt rejected or failed to sign 635 bills during his 12 years in office, using his veto power to keep Congress run by his fellow Democrats subservient. Harry Truman vetoed 250 bills; Dwight Eisenhower, 181. Bill Clinton used one of 37 vetoes to reject a law banning a particular type of abortion.But until last week, when President George W. Bush vetoed a bill to expand federally supported embryonic stem-cell research, the incumbent president a ...

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