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Bush's cable bill veto sets stage for pre-election fight
The Associated Press
FORTLAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Bush vowed a bill Saturday to regulate cable television prices, but its success had fallen prey to special interests.
Setting up another pre-election fight, Bush argued that the bill would result in higher cable fees rather than lower prices.
"This bill illustrates great intentions gone wrong," he said.
Cast as a choice between consumers and fee-hungry cable operators, the bill sailed through Congress with huge, veto-proof margins. Since 1986, the bill has been twisting the arms of Republican senators who voted for the bill.
Mitchell, D-Maine, said the Senate would vote this evening on an override attempt. A House vote is scheduled to follow.
It was Bush's 36th veto. The president has won every veto showdown so far, and White House strategists fear that a defeat now would be viewed as a sign of weakness with the election a month away.
Congressional aides sad Bush met yesterday with several senators, seeking their support for the veto. His chief of staff, James A. Brewster III, met in day with eight Republican senators who had voted for the bill last week.
Sen. Ai Gore, the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, campaigning in New Mexico, released a statement saying that Bush "has vetoed the most important consumer legislation of the year to protect his rich friends in the cable monopolies."
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the veto sadly predictable.
"His claim that the cable legislation has fallen prey to special interests is a good measure of the distance between him and the American people." Dingell said in a statement. "What interest could be more special than that of an unregulated cable monopoly?"
In his veto message, issued during a Florida campaign stop, Bush said that despite claims to the contrary, the bill would not reduce the price people pay for cable television service.
Senate Majority Leader George
He said the bill would require cable companies to bear the costs of new regulations and pay broadcasting companies to carry their programs. He said the result would be higher cable rates.
"Rather, the simple truth is that under this legislation, cable television rates will go up, not down," the president said. "Competition will not increase, it will stagnate. In addition,
this legislation will cost American jobs and discourage investment in telecommunications."
Yet, an election-minded Congress turned in force to respond to consumer complaints about rapid price increases by cable operators.
The measure would require the Federal Communications Commission to determine reasonable rates for minimal cable service and restrict costs on equipment, like remote control devices, that consumers need to operate cable television.
It also contains provisions designed to enhance competition in local communities between existing cable companies and others that could provide a similar kind of expanded television programming.
The cable television industry lobbied hard against the measure, trying to persuade consumers that regulation would cause rates to go up, not down. However, consumer, labor and senior citizen organizations supported the legislation.
National Guardsman confesses to killings
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A National Guardsman charged with fatally stabbing three people he met in a bar told police that he acted in self defense and raped two of the victims, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The guardsman, Steven Scott Coleman, confessed to police that he stabbed the victims but only after one of them, Ronald Quisbert, pulled a knife on him, "Miami Herald"
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reported The Herald quoted unidentified sources familiar with the case.
Nally could not be reached for comment Saturday. There were no phone
The sources said that Coleman confessed to raping two of the victims after killing them, but that rape was not a motive for the slavings.
Coleman will enter a plea of not guilty when he is arraigned Oct. 13, said Pat Nally, assistant Dade County public defender.
Earlier in the week, police said Coleman, a six-year military veteran and Specialist 4th Class, confessed to the slayings.
He was being held without bond Saturday on three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of sexually assaulting two of the victims.
The victims were identified as Quisbert, 20; Regina Rodriguez, 15, and Andrew McGinnis, 22.
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