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Article: Senate Votes to Sustain Veto;Democrats May Reverse Outcome, Enact Highway Bill Today
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- April 2, 1987
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The Senate voted narrowly yesterday to sustain President Reagan's
veto of an $87.5 billion highway and mass transit bill, but the final
outcome remained in doubt last night as Democrats appeared on the
verge of reversing the vote and the White House scrambled to preserve
its victory.
After an extraordinary day of cliff-hanging roll calls, vote
switches and arm-twisting on both sides of the aisle, the president's
battle for a comeback in Congress hinged on picking up just one
Republican vote to offset the change of heart by Sen. Terry Sanford
(N.C.), the president's only Democratic supporter on the original
vote.
When the Senate quit for the evening, Minority Leader Robert J.
Dole (R-Kan.) ...