Word: veto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advisory councils for each farm commodity would be appointed by the Board. These councils would hold a veto power over the Board...
...length, the new McNary Bill went from the Senate to the House, there to be wedded, if possible, to a new Haugen Bill and redebated. Many a non-believer in the bill would vote for it, observers guessed, if they felt sure the President was going to use his veto. Then, when the bill goes back to Congress, the opportunists will make sure that the veto is not overridden by a two-thirds vote. Such has been McNary-Haugen history in the past...
...White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President was "not very happy." He was convinced that the pending bill was a Treasury raid embracing "every proposal, like the creek that happens to be out of doors when it rains." A veto loomed unless the House Flood Control Committee could be persuaded to restrain its generosity to the $400,000,000 or so total cost which the Administration thinks is all the U. S. Treasury can stand...
...voted for Federal operation of Muscle Shoals, and the House having scrapped in Committee all bills providing alternative treatment, President Coolidge let it be known that he was a bitter-end proponent of the plan to lease Muscle Shoals for operation by private interests. . . . More visibly due for a veto was any revenue act providing a tax cut greater than $225,000,000. A direct message from the President to Congress urged favorable action on Secretary MelIon's plan for helping Austria to raise a $100,000,000 rehabilitation loan by subordinating liens taken...
...which the States benefited were to pay $37,080,000, besides furnishing rights of way, was scrapped in February by the House Committee on Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem and last fortnight introduced a $325,000,000 measure retaining the local-payment principle insisted on by President Coolidge but actually costing the States only some $12,000,000. Since this bill did not affect tributaries of the Mississippi...