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(To recap: The Justice Department vetoed Microsoft's 1994 attempt to purchase Intuit, maker of the personal-finance program Quicken, on the grounds that it was anti-competitive--a bid to corner the personal-finance-software market.)
He vetoed key pieces of Reconstruction legislation, including an 1866 bill that would have granted basic civil rights to blacks, and he opposed the 14 th Amendment.
Bush spends a full chapter attempting to defuse a potential Democratic issue by explaining why he vetoed an HMO reform bill in Texas.
The Washington Post leads with yesterday's announcement by House Republican leaders that they would support a tax cut only one-seventh the size of the $792 billion cuts package they put forward last year that was vetoed by President Clinton.
When a committee was convened to decide whether specimens of Lincoln's blood and bones should be tested for DNA to discover whether he suffered from Marfan syndrome, ethicists voted yes but scientists vetoed the plan, claiming that the precious material should not be destroyed in case future tests would prove more effective [4,5].