News in Brief: Clinton Vetoes Measure On Welfare, School Meals

As expected, President Clinton last week vetoed a welfare-reform bill that sought to end decades of guaranteed federal benefits for poor children and their families. It also would have allowed seven states to run school-meals programs under a block-grant plan.

HR 4, the welfare-reform measure that passed the House and Senate last month after months of intense negotiations, would have transferred dozens of federal welfare programs to the states and consolidated federal child-care programs into block grants. (See Education...