Word: veto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growled House G.O.P. Leader Charles Halleck. What Indiana's Halleck was tossing between his thick political calluses was the hottest potato that the President of the U.S. had thrown him all session. The assignment: keep the House from overriding the President's veto of Congress' cherished $1.2 billion rivers and harbors bill (TIME, Sept. 7), a pork barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget. The bill originally rolled through the House on a thunderous voice vote...
Halleck, at home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...greatest battle was for fiscal stability, and his stand against free-handed spending last week withstood the nearly irresistible force of pork-barrel politics. Whipped. The clash: an all-out drive by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and his big Democratic majority to override the President's veto of the public-works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full of rivers-and-harbors projects and other fat goodies dear to politicians of both parties. Rayburn whipped all but six Democrats into a rare moment of unity, but failed by one vote to override. Two days later, still seething over...
...sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President Truman's veto...
HOUSING. Risking a veto, the House passed and sent to the White House a $1 billion housing bill, slimmed down from the $1.4 billion housing bill that the President vetoed last July, but still a lot fatter than he wanted. Ike sent Congress a message bluntly announcing that Housing Bill No. 2 had some "seriously objectionable" features. Some Capitol Hill Republicans predicted that Ike would veto the bill, even though it passed by more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto: 283 to 105 in the House, 71 to 24 in the Senate...