The legislation had not even come to a vote when Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas implored his colleagues to repeal it "in a future year." A future nonelection year, Gramm might have added. The Senate, a third of whose members must face the voters this year, was about to pass a broadly popular bill requiring plant owners to notify workers 60 days in advance of closings or wholesale layoffs. Despite Ronald Reagan's threatened veto, 19 Republicans joined 53 Democrats to forge a 72-to-23 victory. With that lopsided vote, the bill's supporters can easily override a presidential veto -- if it...
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