Word: impounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress has been so active, in fact, that the President has vetoed six key bills that it passed: restoration of impounded grants for rural water and sewer projects; vocational rehabilitation for the handicapped; a requirement for Senate confirmation of the present and any future director and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget; a ban on the use of congressionally appropriated funds to pay for bombing in Cambodia; emergency medical care; and, last week, an increase in the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour to $2.20. So far, Congress has been unable to muster the forces to override...
...that he had taken an aggressive line on Watergate and that his advice was not welcome. More embarrassing revelations about secret bombings and covert military activity in Cambodia and Laos continued to spill out. Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early August to discuss a Cambodian settlement with Chou Enlai, aroused speculation. Kissinger is concerned that Watergate has eroded the President...
...operations of the Executive branch. The committee should work closely with the Senate's Ervin subcommittee, and should concentrate chiefly on the House's responsibility arising from the Watergate scandal. It should also treat the broader question of whether the Executive's attempts to continue the Cambodian bombing and impound appropriated funds are constitutional...
...Highly recommended by almost every Administration official with whom he came into contact, Dean caught the eye of image-oriented people at the White House, and in 1970 moved over there to succeed John Ehrlichman as counsel. He has outlined the legal basis for Nixon's decisions to impound funds voted by Congress and to expand the doctrine of executive privilege...
Nixon has gone further than his predecessors. He has claimed the constitutional right to impound, both to manage the economy and to reject programs or portions of programs that he feels are illadvised. While past Presidents have shifted funds slated for one weapons system to another, they have been reluctant to do the same with domestic programs. Nixon has thus further stretched presidential power...