Have They Finally Had Enough?
President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was too expensive. It was the first time in a decade that Congress has passed a bill over a presidential veto.
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The House voted 361-54 to override the veto Tuesday. Both votes easily exceeded the two-thirds majority needed in each chamber to negate a presidential veto.
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Too expensive?
The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday publicly held U.S. debt breached $9 trillion this week for the first time ever, just five weeks after Congress had raised the statutory borrowing limit.
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The increase in the debt limit is the fifth since Bush took office in January 2001. The U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of his presidency.
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Congress Nears First Bush Veto Override
The House approved what could become the first override of a President Bush veto Tuesday, with Repub
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It’s about time the Dems showed some backbone. What have they done since they became the majority on Capital Hill? A couple of non-binding resolutions?
But then, this water resource bill is the most important issue facing America right now.
Well, I’m a lot more cynical. There was probably some really juicy pork barrel in there that key Congressmen wanted.
I’m not sure to whom to attribute this. It may have been the long-time Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. But, I think it applies.
If you put both of them in a barrel and rolled it down hill, there’d be a son of a bitch on top the whole way.
“If you put both of them in a barrel and rolled it down hill, there’d be a son of a bitch on top the whole way.”
I wish I had said that.