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Tough horse-trading shaped the final bill. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire pressured the bill's backers to include an amendment permitting any Governor to veto siting of a nuclear-waste dump in his state unless majority votes in both the Senate and the House overrule him. Mississippi Congressman Trent...
Both houses of the state legislature approved the sweeping provision by voice votes early in December But King expressed reservations about the bill, proposing amendments to make it less stringent.
Brooks was the first, but since 1977 the new technique has become something of a legislative fad in the West. In addition to Texas, neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico have nearly identical laws, as does Idaho; in Washington, the condemned have a choice: lethal injection or hanging. A dozen other...
When the members of the Constitutional Convention drafted the provision which allows undergraduates to force the Council to administer referenda, it was intended to be an accountability measure to prevent the Council from straying too far from student concerns. We did not foresee that political organizations would use this provision...
Writing for the Court Burger said that the veto provision "substitutes the unilateral and absolute power of a church for the reasoned decision-making of a public legislative body acting on evidence and guided by standards."