Reply #34: Not necassarily

[karynnj]

On the original Senate vote, Hollings (sc) was the only Democrat to vote for the budget (where the bill was inserted without a vote). If Clinton had insisted before the Senate vote that he would veto any budget containing it - it might not have passed the Senate in the first place. (The same might be true of the House)

If the President vetoed it - obviously explaining his objections - I seriously doubt enough Democrats would vote to overturn the veto - they were not that keen on the bill originally. (In fairness, I could not find any statement in the Senate record where an original "no" vote was due to Glass - Segal.