CLINTON VETOES GOP WELFARE BILL.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. President Clinton, just as he promised, vetoed on Tuesday a Republican plan to overhaul the nation's primary welfare programs and end the federal guarantee of aid to the poor. Clinton complained in his veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members. In the U.S. message that the Republican bill "does too little to move people from welfare to work," but said he was willing to work with Congress on a new version "to enact real, bipartisan reform." The House and Senate passed the bill the week before Christmas, but by margins less than the two-thirds majorities needed to override An arrangement whereby commissions are made by sales managers based upon the sales made by their subordinate sales representatives. A term found in an agreement between a real estate agent and a property owner whereby the agent keeps the right to receive a commission for the sale of Clinton's veto. But Clinton waited until two weeks of White House talks with Republicans over ending federal deficits by 2002 and simultaneously cutting taxes broke down Tuesday before taking out his pen for the welfare bill veto. It was the 12th veto of Clinton's presidency. Of the previous 11 vetoes, only one - on a measure making it more difficult for investors to bring class-action securities fraud suits against companies - has been overridden by Congress and become law. The sweeping rewrite re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. of the nation's 60-year-old federal welfare system would have replaced federal guarantees to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was the name of a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1997,[1] which was administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. program with block grants that could be used by the states to fashion their own welfare plans. |
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