The White House has indicated it would veto a bill that goes as far as the House version.
And would he veto a bill that was operating on that premise?
While no one has said out loud that the president would veto a bill that calls for government negotiation, officials have made it pretty clear that's the likely outcome.
On Friday the White House said that U.S. president George W. Bush would veto a bill expanding public funding for embryonic stem cell research that could be sent to him next week.
Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.
Why, when it comes to making a stand against spending, why does it come into veto of a bill that spends money on health insurance for children of low-income households?
Pro-growth Governor Christie has already vowed (in typical, colorful fashion) to veto such a bill.
Dole also said the threatened presidential veto of a tax bill recently passed by Congress would hurt farmers because it contains several farm-friendly provisions.
Patrick's Day prompted Gov. Paul LePage to relent on a vow to veto any bill that reached his desk before lawmakers pass his proposal to pay a state debt to hospitals.
Republicans will also attempt to override Clinton's veto of a prized GOP bill that would have repealed the federal estate tax and the so-called "marriage penalty, " but Democrats are confident that they have the votes to sustain the vetoes.
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Despite a veto-proof majority of council members supporting a bill to require city employers to provide workers with paid sick days, Ms. Quinn had blocked the measure from coming to the floor for years.
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But environmentalists campaigned for a total veto of the bill, which they said would spur deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
During remarks to members of the American Legion, Bush repeated his threat to veto any bill that includes a timeline for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.
He said Kerry and Edwards later voted against money for the war, but did not mention that he threatened to veto a version of the defense bill that Kerry supported because it proposed to finance the expenditures by eliminating tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
In February, the state's Democratic-controlled legislature overrode a veto by Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of a major transportation funding bill that included a gas tax increase.
But President Clinton has promised to veto any bill to establish such a site.
But Mr Bush threatened to veto any spending bill that contained such a timetable, a threat that he has made good on once already this month, and the Republicans stood solidly behind him.
Senator Mattingly has introduced a bill permitting a 2-year trial run of the line-item veto.
Around 3, 200 Tennesseans signed a petition urging Mr Haslam to veto the bill.
President Bush's boldest policy move on health care reform so far could be the veto he used this morning to block a bipartisan bill reauthorizing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers free or low-cost health insurance to children in low-income families.
But before the president can use his veto, Republicans will have to agree on a single bill to send him.
Lost in the news of Bush's veto of stem cell bill was the fate of a separate bill sponsored by Sen.
While the Senate passed a bill in March in a bipartisan 72-24 vote, the House has only a shell bill to offer, plus its "non-negotiable" insistence on mandatory approval of Keystone XL. The Senate majority has its own bazooka: a presidential veto if Keystone XL is in the bill.
But that proposal came with a caveat - a promise from Mr Obama that he would veto any bill eventually passed by Congress that cut healthcare but did not include new taxes on the rich.
Russ Feingold, who's one of the Democrats' most outspoken war critics, are sponsoring another bill that could be considered after a Bush veto.
Before that, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group, made a request to California Gov. Jerry Brown to veto the bill.
This week attorneys in Washington representing the Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians wrote a letter to Governor Rick Scott demanding that he veto the bill.
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President Bush has already said he'll veto the final version of the bill on grounds that it is a step toward health care nationalization.
President Bush has threatened to veto the measure, but the House is also considering a health care bill that would raise the price of cigarettes.
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