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Congress overrides Bush veto
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Congress overrode President
Bush's veto Monday and en
acted legislation doslgnnd to
regulate the cable television
industry and curb rising
rales It was thn first time tho House and Senate
had thwarted Bush’s veto during his presidency.
Tho House voted 30H-114; tho Senate 74-25.
Both were comfortably over the necessary two
thirds majority
Bush had successfully vetoed 35 previous bills
Clapping, cheers and hand-shipping erupted on
the Democratic side of the House floor us the vote
total neared the magic number of 2HU. assuring
the veto would bo overridden Democrats began
chanting, "Co. go. go,” as the vote total crossed
that number
The override came despite an intensive last
minute lobbying campaign by the White House
eager to preserve Bush's perfect record and avoid
a highly publicized defeat one month before the
election
Opponents of the bill blamed election-year pol
itics for the override, but proponents said con
sumer anger over soaring rates led to wide bi
partisan support for the measure In both cham
bers.
"This is not a partisan piece of legislation,”
said Rep lidward Markoy, D Muss., co-author of
the bill that relmposos government regulation on
the (able TV Industry "It is an Issue between the
cable industry and the consumers of our coun
try "
But earlier in the Senato, Republican leader
Kohert Dole said, " This is an attempt to emburrass
tho president 30 days before the election. That's
what this is all about."
The Senate vote was seen as the crucial tost of
the president'* veto strength on tho issue.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwator
said earlier Bush was telephoning lawmakers and
"we obviously hope wo switched soma." Bush
had breakfast Sunday with night senators he
hoped to sway
But the Senate vote was identical to its original
roll call on tho cablo TV bill last month.
Dole said that he’d gathered 32 votes against
overriding tho bill, but couldn’t muster tho two
others needed to sustain the president's veto,
thereby freeing senators to go back to their origi
nal votes.
"This is a tremendous victory for consumers.”
said Cone Klmmolman of tho Consumer Federa
tion of America, which supported tho bill. "This
shows that the Congress has rejected election year
politicking and chosen to stand by consumers to
protect them from the excossos of cable monopo
lies."
Tho bill would require the Federal Communi
cations Commission to sot rates for basic cable
service in communities whore cable companies
operalo as monopolies, n aiso is unsigned iu en
hance competition from other companies that can
provide expanded programming similar to cubic.
And in a concession to the broadcast industry,
it requires cable companies to negotiate with lo
cal broadcasters before carrying their signals.
"The president says competition will not in
crease with this bill.” said Sen. Daniel Inouyo, D
Hnwail. "He is wrong. If wo do not pass this bill,
there will never be competition to cable."
Republican Son. John Danforlh of Missouri, a
co-author of the bill, cautioned Democrats not to
characterize the vote as a weakening of the presi
dent.
"I know a lot of weight has gone on tho presi
dent's perfect record on vetoes.” Danforth said.
"A lot of presidents have had voloos overridden,
and they have been very strong presidents."
Ho pointed out that nine vetoes by President
Reagan were overridden.
After tho Senate voto. Fitzwatcr said. "Wo
stood for lower cablo bills for the consumer
through increased competition. This is an impor
tant principle. Wo genuinely bollevo that our ap
proach would bo a bettor way to increase tho vari
ety of services available to the consumer at lower
prices."
Tho legislation had won big majorities in both
houses — 280-12B in the House and 74-25 in the
Senate.
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