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Holmes explained that some of his Alabama colleagues opposed his measure because they willfully refused to accept that the federal government had the power to override state law--an ideology of states' rights that goes way beyond Newt Gingrich to John Calhoun.
To teach government officials how to avoid, override, and even take advantage of line-item-veto threats to their budgets.
Congress failed to override President Clinton's veto of a ban last fall.
The Senate is thought to be a few votes short of an override.
The act involved, essentially, a congressional override of several Supreme Court decisions that had narrowed, in a number of ways, the scope of earlier civil-rights statutes.