McCain says he would veto pork spending
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Republican John McCain says that if elected president, he would repeal the alternative minimum tax and keep government spending in check using vetoes and line-item-veto authority.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday said he would veto a Democratic-backed bill to expand a children's health care program and urged Congress to temporarily extend the current one while lawmakers work out differences.
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John McCain is turning down government matching funds for the primaries to free him to spend more money for a general election contest.
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Democrats taking control of Congress  next month say they will try to ban for the remainder of fiscal  2007 the special-interest "pork" projects that got Republicans  in so much trouble with voters in the November elections.
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Signaling he is poised to take a tough line with Democrats over the budget, President George W. Bush met on Wednesday with congressional Republicans and renewed a threat to veto spending he considers excessive.
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U.S. Sen. John McCain on Tuesday canceled an appearance for a Republican congressional candidate who has attacked his opponent for supporting McCain&#039;s immigration bill.
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President George W. Bush would veto a broad budget bill under consideration by the U.S. Congress if it does not contain money for the Iraq war, his spokeswoman said.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal for a Woodstock museum as wasteful spending in a new television ad that started on Friday.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain has a message for critics of the immigration compromise he helped devise.
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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organization (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on farming.
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California Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday he would veto a bill that would   create a government-run health care system for the most   populous U.S. state.
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President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday he will veto the new U.S. farm law if it raises taxes or fails to cut off subsidies to farmers and land owners making more than $200,000 a year.
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John McCain dismissed the notion Thursday that he would drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination because he's lagging in fundraising and trailing in polls.
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Two Republican senators said Thursday the Bush administration should pull back from talk about vetoing legislation that would renew a health insurance program for children.
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The congressional spending season began with a blowup over earmarks in the House yesterday, as the first bill to reach a vote prompted a White House veto threat and scores of amendments from Republicans furious with Democrats' handling of pet-project spending in the measures.
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McCain said Thursday he would support the GOP nominee and not launch an independent bid, no matter who wins
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The president has repeatedly vowed to veto the bill, following through on the first veto of his presidency when he rejected a similar stem cell proposal last year.