• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Senate joins House in overriding farm law veto

WASHINGTON
Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:18pm EDT
President George W. Bush speaks to reporters upon his departure from Washington en route to Europe June 9, 2008. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday joined the House of Representatives in overriding the second veto by President George W. Bush of the new U.S. farm law, a step that enacted a 35-page section dealing with farm-export and food aid programs.

U.S.  |  Barack Obama

It was the third time a Bush veto has been overturned. Bush has vetoed 11 bills during two terms in office.

"We just had to put that Title III back in. That is the trade title," said Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat. The trade section was omitted by clerical error from the bill vetoed by Bush last month.

(Reporting by Charles Abbott; Editing by David Gregorio)
U.S.
Barack Obama


More from Reuters

Demonstrator holds a signboard with a slogan "Bla bla bla ACT NOW" during a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 12, 2009. REUTERS/Christian Charisius

"Polluters are given rights to continue their dirty habits"

A climate change scientist blasts proposals for a cap and trade system, arguing it allows dirty industries to continue polluting, instead of rewarding innovation.  Full Article | Full Coverage 

    Climate Conference
    People walk by a Bank of America branch in New York. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    The search is on -- again

    Bank of America has less than two weeks left before Chief Executive Ken Lewis steps down. With the top candidate out of the picture, here's a look at what might happen next.  Full Article 

    Executive compensation
    Indian woman mourns death of her relative killed in tsunami in Cuddalore. When an earthquake of magnitude 9.15 struck off Indonesia's Aceh province on December, 26, 2004, it triggered a huge tsuanmi that raced across the Indian Ocean and hit Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. The worst natural disaster of the decade left 230,000 people dead or missing. Taken on December 28, 2004 by Arko Datta

    Pictures that defined a decade

    A woman's grief amid the tsunami devastation and one woman's fight against police in the Amazon are among the indelible Reuters images of the last 10 years.  Slideshow 

    Pictures