Word: impound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiscal policy. The President has trimmed $7.5 billion from the federal budget that he inherited from Lyndon Johnson and ordered reductions in Government construction. Congress has consistently voted this fall to raise federal spending above the levels that the White House wants. Last week Nixon announced that he would impound appropriated funds, if necessary, to keep the Government from running an inflationary deficit in fiscal...
...Monday, the City Council advanced an ordinance which would allow City police to tow and impound any car with five or more unpaid parking tickets on it. In order to get his car back, the owner would have to pay the tickets plus towing charges...
...includes-for no ascertainable reason-a rider that gives the President the unrequested power to activate some 1,000,000 military reservists without first declaring a national emergency. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen even managed to insert an amendment in a public-works bill that authorizes the President to impound 20% of the funds Congress allows for domestic programs because of the "unpredictability" of the war in Viet Nam. The Senate approved it, even though it was simply a Dirksen exercise in oneupmanship. If the House agrees, the President, who has always had the power to withhold congressionally appropriated funds...
Second, there should be an independent commission to investigate accidents. Although it would be impractical to study every case. Buxbaum said, a statistically accurate sample would be sufficient to determine the major defects. The board, he detailed, would have the power to impound crashed cars and conduct, a thorough "autopsy" to find the part that failed...
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...