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President Bush has been notoriously averse to wielding his veto pen, but the $440.2 billion defense bill pending in the Senate may be the first measure to receive that presidential inscription. The bill "provides $7 billion less than President George W. Bush requested early this year and is nearly $1 billion below current levels," pointed out a September 30 Reuters report. The White House insists that those cuts would "either result in deterioration of our force readiness" or trigger supplemental spending requests later in the fiscal year.
The potential deal-breaker for the White House, however, is an amendment approved by the Senate on October 5 banning the use of "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" interrogation techniques against detainees. The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the president has the authority to detain, as an "unlawful combatant," any individual for any length of time he deems appropriate; ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bush's first veto?(INSIDER REPORT)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)