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Vetoed it on tuesday, today the sponsors of the bill were trying to override that veto. at the outset the governor needed to flip three votes to make his veto stand. he had already flipped one with this thing he did about ordering the drugs from india. could he get two more votes today? to keep the death penalty in place? the debate today in nebraska was very long. it was sometimes personal it was sometimes very difficult to listen to it was so prickly. but in the end when they counted the votes, the governor had lost by the narrowest possible means, the death penalty opponents had won, they repealed it. they had voted to repeal it before, he vetoed it they overrode his veto with the slimmest of margins, nebraska has done what a red state has not done for four decades. nebraska today got out of the business of capital punishment and they did it with republican ....
At the outset, the governor needed to flip three votes to make his veto stand. he had already flipped one with this thing he did about ordering the drugs from india. could he get two more votes today? to keep the death penalty in place? the debate today in nebraska was very long. it was sometimes personal, it was sometimes very difficult to listen to, it was so prickly. but in the end when they counted the votes, the governor had lost by the narrowest possible means, the death penalty opponents had won, they repealed it. they had voted to repeal it before, he vetoed it, they overrode his veto with the slimmest of margins, nebraska has done what a red state has not done for four decades. nebraska today nebraska today got out of the business of capital punishment and they did it with republican votes against a very powerful and very well resourced republican governor, and that ....
Were trying to override that veto. at the outset, the governor needed to flip three votes to make his veto stand. he had already flipped one with this thing he did about ordering the drugs from india. could he get two more votes today to keep the death penalty in place? the debate today in nebraska was very long. it was sometimes personal. it was sometimes very difficult to listen to, it was so prickly. but in the end when they counted the votes, the governor had lost by the narrowest possible means, the death penalty opponents had won. they repealed it. they had voted to repeal it before, he vetoed it, they overrode his veto with the slimmest of margins. nebraska has done what a red state has not done for four decades. nebraska today got out of the business of capital punishment and they did it with republican votes against a very powerful and very well resourced republican governor, and that powerful governor went up against a group of conservatives ....
Veto it because we will overturn you. it gives congress much more of a say in this. if the president thinks he can get by and have his veto stand and they can only get a failed attempt to overturn it that is different. but if they get that 67 it changes everything. biyron york, thank you. the federal government is hitting their legal debt limit tomorrow and lawmakers must take measures to barrow more money. mike emanual is live in washington. what do they plan to do this morning? congressional sources they say this isn t the real debt ceiling. they can stretch it out until october or november but the majority said they will tackle ....
In the country. the majority of arkansasans and the majority of americans don t want politicians involved in a woman s personal medical decisions about her pregnancy. governor beebe rightfully vetoed this legislation and the legislature would have been wise to let the veto stand. tonight the aclu tells politico it will partner for the center of reproductive rights to challenge the new law. joining me now is ian carmone, staffwriter for dot-com, and martha, a woman who works for women s rights. martha, it is in clear violation of roe versus wade, a clear constitution of the land, and here you have a legislature that is voting its state, as the governor told them, into an expensive legal process that as the law stands today is going to cost them a lot of money and ....