It was only the second Congressional objection to an entire State's electoral delegation in U.S. history; the first instance was in 1877.
But many people in sports fear Congressional objections if they tried to charge television viewers for events like the Super Bowl and the World Series.
In the absence of Congressional objections, the State Department will begin a $3 million architectural and design plan for a new chancery next week.
Congressional objections have stymied base-closings for years.
But it was unclear whether that would satisfy Congressional objections.
The United States was secretly encouraging the shipment of military equipment from Iran, Turkey, and Jordan to Pakistan, reimbursing those countries despite Congressional objections.
If there are no Congressional objections, the Pentagon said Colombia would be offered a package deal including either five or six helicopters for a total price of $36 million.
It overrode Congressional objections to continuing Federal financing for commercial transactions with Iraq and sold Baghdad high-technology equipment that could be useful in Iraq's military programs.
The money is under Mr. Rubin's control, with Presidential approval, and he reached into it to circumvent Congressional objections to aiding Mexico in 1995.
The Pentagon cynically sidestepped Congressional objections by moving the Indonesian training from the military education program, where it was prohibited, to a different bureaucratic pocket.