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- THE WEEK, Page 25NATIONHot Potatoes
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- The Democrats keep tossing touchy bills at the White House
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- Even while the 102nd Congress raced to adjourn for the campaign
- finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial
- issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many
- fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White
- House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief,
- the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to
- override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House
- opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's
- abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the
- necessary two-thirds vote to overturn the legislation, which
- bars abortion counseling by nonphysician workers in federally
- funded family-planning clinics. The vote came the day after the
- Administration's curb on such funding took effect. Bush's
- Saturday veto of a bill reregulating cable TV just might be
- overridden; it was first passed by a more than 2-to-1 vote in
- both houses.
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