Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student committee, which governs fraternities and whose decision could be overridden by the administration, concluded that "Tom acted by himself, as an individual, and that Chi Psi acted as best they could to prevent any problems," Mark Scerbo, the panel's chairman, said...
...Congress remains Democratic and goes for big-spending programs, Reagan would use vetoes the way he did in California. He cast nearly 1,000 during his eight years as Governor, and only a handful were overridden. He would make a pass at dismantling the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. Reagan would use commerce and industry as a talent pool far more than Carter has. The regulating agencies would take on more of a pro-business cast...
...nearly 30 years had a Democratic Congress overridden a Democratic President's veto.* Still, that was exactly what happened to President Carter's $10 billion oil-import tax last week. The levy, which would have cost the U.S. motorist 10? per gal., was first rejected by huge margins in both houses. So when Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next...
Reagan did feud with the Democratic legislators. He vetoed 994 bills-and made his vetoes stick; only one was overridden. Yet on many other issues, he first fought for conservative principles and then, when faced with deadlock or defeat, agreed to compromise. Recalls Willie Brown, an influential Democratic assemblyman from San Francisco: "He showed a willingness to accept collective decisions without serious ego problems. He does not measure his self-worth by whether an idea...
There is a chance, however, that taxes may be held down. Gov. Edward J. King's 4-per-cent spending cap, adopted during Proposition 13 fever, can be overridden only if six members of the City Council vote...