1.   And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.

2.   Although they control Congress, President Clinton holds the veto pen.

3.   And there is President Clinton, possessed of the veto pen and the bully pulpit so effectively used by Theodore Roosevelt.

4.   But Capitol observers see it only as a pause in the action until we see who holds the veto pen next.

5.   But Clinton wielded his veto pen to block it.

6.   But Clinton killed the amendment with one of the first strokes of his line-item veto pen.

7.   But on the other two occasions there was a Democratic president in the White House ready to use his veto pen had the Senate failed to block the bill.

8.   But the victory may be short-lived, as President Clinton readies his veto pen for legislation that he believes will threaten Alaskan Natives and the environment.

9.   But they added that they did not have the votes to override the governor should he decide to slice that supplementary budget to shreds with his veto pen.

10.   By contrast, the Republicans in Congress now are facing a Democratic president, his veto pen at the ready, prepared to challenge them at almost every turn.