No veto after all?

Over the past months, we've read about how Bush - who has yet to veto a bill - was unhappy with the pending highway and transportation bill, and in this case, would veto it if it wasn't trimmed back to under $284 billion.

But in this story about the deals made to pass CAFTA, we read:

Lawmakers also said many of the favors bestowed in exchange for votes [for CAFTA] will be tucked into the huge energy and highway bills that Congress is scheduled to pass this week before leaving for the August recess.

The highway bill is currently over $284 billion, but it looks as if Bush will not veto it since it now contains goodies-in-exchange-for-the-CAFTA-vote.


posted by Quiddity at 7/29/2005 01:38:00 AM