Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December President Hoover had recommended a major revision of veterans laws to reduce non-military disability allowances. Congress ignored his proposal. The independent offices appropriation bill carried the maximum legal amounts for ex-soldiery. Even before he left the White House President Hoover had explained his pocket veto of that measure: "The appropriation bills passed by the Congress, when taking into account mere postponements to later deficiency bills, show that the total appropriations were approximately $161,000,000 above my recommendations. Of this increase $130,900,000 is in the independent offices bill. I am not signing this bill...
...With great regret" President Hoover vetoed the first appropriation bill to reach him from Congress. In the first deficiency measure he found a clause giving Congress the power to pass on all Treasury tax refunds over $20,000. Armed with precedents running back to George Washington, the President declared the bill was an unconstitutional invasion by Congress of executive prerogatives. The House sustained his veto...
...Sustained (193-to-158) President Hoover's veto of the first deficiency bill. The President disapproved the measure on the ground that Congressional review of tax refunds over $20,000 was an unconstitutional invasion of executive authority. Later a substitute for the first deficiency bill, without the objectionable provision, was passed, sent to the Senate...
...Passed a second time the first deficiency appropriation bill, minus the tax refund review clause that produced a veto...
Half way round the world in Washington, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, prime promoter of Philippine independence, sat at his flower-banked desk in the Senate Office Building and grinned victoriously. The Senate, following House action week before (TIME, Jan. 23), had overridden (66-to-26) a thumping Presidential veto on H. R. 7233, to free the Philippine Islands...