
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 21, 1990                   TAG: 9006210536
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATE VOTES TO UPHOLD VETO

The Senate, by two votes, today upheld President Bush's veto of a bill that would have broadened the political rights of 3 million government workers.

On a 65-35 vote, it refused to revise the 51-year-old Hatch Act to remove prohibitions on campaign activities for federal and postal employees. A two-thirds majority was needed to enact the bill into law over Bush's objections. Virginia Sens. John Warner, R, and Charles Robb, D, voted to override the veto.

The House had voted Wednesday by an overwhelming 327-93 majority, well above the two-thirds needed, to override Bush's veto of the bill last Friday. Today's Senate vote gave Bush an unbroken string of 12 victories in veto showdowns with the Democratic-led Congress.

Virginians voting to override the veto were Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, Rep. Jim Olin, D-Roanoke, Rep. L.F. Payne, D-Nelson County, Rep. Owen Pickett, D-Virginia Beach, Rep. Norman Sisisky, D-Petersburg, Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Richmond, and Rep. Stanford Parris, R-Fairfax County.

Voting to sustain the veto were Rep. Herbert Bateman, R-Newport News, Rep. French Slaughter, R-Culpeper, and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Fairfax County.

The legislation would allow federal workers, for the first time in five decades, to attend political conventions and caucuses as delegates - on their own time - and speak at rallies on behalf of candidates.

It also would remove a ban on government workers holding offices in local, state or national political organizations or soliciting donations from co-workers for federal employee and postal union political action committees.

by CNB