Clinton could have vetoed it based on specific reasons and sent it back to Congress with a promise to pass it after they took out the lines he did not like.
'Foreclosure Phil' http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html talk about incestuous - ' (For Gramm, Enron was a family affair. Eight years earlier, his wife, Wendy Gramm . . . as cftc chairwoman !!! had pushed through a rule excluding Enron's energy futures contracts from government oversight.'