Democrats Urge Bush to OK Water Projects

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Source: Associated Press

Democrats Urge Bush to OK Water Projects

Saturday October 27, 2007 12:46 AM

By JOHN HEILPRIN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders in Congress on
Friday sent President Bush a veto-proof bill to
authorize spending $23 billion in water projects, having
waited more than a month to request his signature on a
measure he has threatened to veto.

Democrats have more than the two-thirds majority votes
in both chambers of Congress needed to override Bush if
he vetoes the bill. The Senate passed it on Sept. 24 by
a vote of 81-12; the House passed it Aug. 1 by a vote
of 381-40.

An override would mark the first such loss for Bush and
could cast him in a more politically vulnerable light.

“This congressionally approved bill authorizes more than
200 projects to protect lives and livelihoods in our
communities from the devastating impacts of flooding by
building and repairing floodwalls and levees, as well as
by restoring wetlands that absorb floodwaters,” House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and four other top House
Democrats wrote Bush in a letter Friday urging him to
sign the bill.

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