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- <text id=92TT2261>
- <title>
- Oct. 12, 1992: Hot Potatoes
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 12, 1992 Perot:HE'S BACK!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- NATION
- Hot Potatoes
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- <p>The Democrats keep tossing touchy bills at the White House
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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