WASHINGTON -- Despite optimism from local officials, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, the top Democratic vote-counter in the House, said Louisiana shouldn't assume Congress will override a threatened presidential veto of hurricane protection and coastal restoration projects.
A seemingly veto-proof majority voted 381-40 this month for the $21 billion Water Resources Development Act, which President Bush says is too expensive. But Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and House majority whip, said that mustering the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a veto isn't a certainty.
It appears that not even David Vitter can save us.
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