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The verdict from Dawn, a leading Pakistani newspaper: "Not very convincing Mr President".Related items Pakistan: Poor judgmentMar 15th 2007 America and Pakistan: Between Cheney and a hard placeMar 1st 2007 Pakistan: Musharraf does the splitsFeb 22nd 2007Elections, which are due within a year will be held on time, he said.
(ES) Mr President, two items were withdrawn from the agenda this morning.
Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, also called for a new effort to pass legislation giving the president line-item veto power.
To hear them talk, all we need to do to fix the budget is get rid of pork-barrel spending — perhaps by giving the president line-item veto power.
Voting on the measures, which would cut the Tribal Council membership by more than half and give the president line-item veto authority, "would come close to that," Mr. Wilkins said.
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In July, he laid out 12 steps to cut spending, which included raising the age for Social Security eligibility and giving the president a line-item veto over budget items.
The Fifa congress has to deal with a significant amount of other motions before it gets to the vote for president, the 18th item on its 18-item agenda.
