Article: LOTT: SENATE CLOSE TO OVERRIDING ABORTION-BAN VETO.(News/National/International)

Byline: Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said Thursday that President Clinton's veto of a ban on certain late-term abortions ``shocked the conscience of the nation,'' and he suggested the Senate is close to being able to override.

``We will not rest until the ban on partial-birth abortion becomes law - if not this year, then early in the next Congress with an expanded Republican majority,'' Lott, R-Miss., said in a letter to Republican National Committee chief Jim Nicholson.

Lott's letter, timed to coincide with the committee's winter meeting in California, did not directly address a divisive resolution expected ...

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