Sentences with phrase «vetoed hundreds of bills»
Over the weekend, the Governor signed and vetoed hundreds of bills.
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Since 1975, that total has only been exceeded four times — in 2006, when an outgoing Gov. George Pataki vetoed hundreds of bills in an apparent attempt to bolster his conservative credentials in advance of a potential 2008 presidential campaign, and three of the four years when the state was governed by Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, and tensions between the Legislature and executive were especially high.
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Facing a deadline this week for dispatching hundreds of bills, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has begun issuing long lists of his preferred and rejected legislation - including Tuesday his veto of a bill that would have clarified the definition of STEM education in California.