CONGRESS EXPECTED TO OVERRIDE WATER RESOURCES VETO TODAY

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/06/450906.aspx

From NBC's Mike Viqueira

That House vote to override the president's veto of a water resources bill (WRDA) will come sometime mid-afternoon today.

President Bush is expected to lose on an override vote for the first time of his presidency -- and by a significant margin.

The Senate would then act as early as tomorrow. There, too, the president is expected to lose. The bill would then become law over the president's objections.

The measure includes hundreds of projects large and small in congressional districts scattered all over country to be undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Administration cites the projects as wasteful spending, noting that the price of the bill has skyrocketed to $23 billion, as the project has moved through Congress. Yet congressional Republicans -- who have sought to re-emphasize their fiscal conservatism since they lost the majority -- are not going to fight on this ground.

and they caught him.

Small victory if they pull it off. I'll take it. :woohoo:

Democrats do not have enough votes to override a veto by themselves.