1.   Although the chief executive can veto legislation, the legislature can override that veto.

2.   Clinton vetoes legislation restricting securitiesfraud lawsuits.

3.   If the president can be induced to veto Dole legislation, that claim will look stronger still.

4.   Losing the majority in the Bundesrat, which May veto tax legislation, is a nuisance but not a disaster.

5.   President Clinton has vowed to veto the legislation.

6.   The Senate would have the power to veto legislation affecting Melanesians, but would have restricted powers over financial legislation.

7.   President Bush had earlier warned Congress that he would veto any legislation which interfered with the ban, originally imposed by the Reagan administration.

8.   It was particularly critical of the NP vision of a upper house with the power to veto legislation from a democratically elected lower chamber.

9.   And Bush, who has pledged an end to gridlock would have to decide whether to veto legislation with bipartisan support early in his term in office.