Word: impoundment
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...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...
Even if the group collects the signatures of a majority of the Class of 1960, there is no guarantee that nominations will be reopened. The Elections Committee will impound the ballots and reconsider the entire question; but if it should decide publicity was sufficient, the petition would be denied...
...thousands of Cambridge voters head for the polls today, City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 has won his inquest petition to have the Court impound all absentee ballots that had been notarized by a man implicated last week in alleged ballot tampering...