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I would be grateful to you if you could cite evidence of any congress overriding any XO

POTUS is NOT a plenipotentiary branch of the govt. Congress can reign Exec Orders in when they decide to.

• William J. Clinton
Memorandum on Abortions in Military Hospitals 
January 22, 1993

Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense
Subject: Privately Funded Abortions at Military Hospitals

Section 1093 of title 10 of the United States Code prohibits the use of Department of Defense ("DOD") funds 
to perform abortions except where the life of a woman would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. 
By memoranda of December 21, 1987, and June 21, 1988, DOD has gone beyond what I am informed are the requirements 
of the statute and has banned all abortions at U.S. military facilities, even where the procedure is privately 
funded. This ban is unwarranted. Accordingly, I hereby direct that you reverse the ban immediately and permit 
abortion services to be provided, if paid for entirely with non-DOD funds and in accordance with other relevant 
DOD policies and procedures.

You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:50 a.m., January 27, 1993]

December 22, 1995
Keeping Faith With the Troops: Why Clinton Should Sign the DOD Bill
by Baker Spring
Executive Memorandum #442
On December 19, 1995 the Senate approved the Department of Defense authorization bill, sending it to President Bill Clinton for his signature. The bill authorizes national security programs for both the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1996.
President Clinton, however, has threatened to veto the defense bill (Note: he didn't). The President objects to the bill's provisions banning abortions at military hospitals, discharging military personnel with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and earmarking funds for shipbuilding and other programs. But his biggest problem appears to be the bill's demand that the nation begin building defenses against ballistic missiles.

--later--

On June 25, 1998 by a vote of 44 to 49, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Patty Murray (D.Wash.) to overturn a section of the 1996 Defense Authorization Bill that blocks U.S. military hospitals from performing privately funded abortions for US. service members and their dependents.