Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent article in the Washington Post, Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government, and Joseph Cooper, assistant professor of Government, urged that Johnson "withdraw or simply ignore" unjustifiably strong objections he made to a provision in the Omnibus Rivers and Harbors...
Maass and Cooper defend the measure as effective use of the legislative veto, "a new and promising mechanism of legislative oversight." They point out that it is used when the President submits plans for the reorganization of agencies and functions in the executive branch, which do not go into effect until Congress has 60 days to study and perhaps veto them...
After listing all the President's possible objections to the water-resources procedure, Maass and Cooper conclude that "it is hard to find the dangers the President fears...
Presidential objections will be "well known and documented" under the new procedure, according to Maass and Cooper. But beyond that, the President can later "veto the appropriations bill if he is displeased with Congress's changes, or he can impound funds for a project that he considers undesirable...
Rivers-and-harbors bills are sometimes referred to as "pork-barrel bills," since Congressmen often attempt to have a pet project included. But Maass and Cooper contend that "the bill is more the President's bill than is much legislation, for almost all the projects in it have been recommended...