Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pourin' It On." It was plain that he intended to give Congress the business from now on. He returned to the White House with an avowal to "veto some more bills."* It was also plain that he meant to make campaign hay out of the 80th Congress' neglect of housing, reclamation, and health-insurance legislation. "Oh, I'm pourin' it on," he cried, "and I'm gonna keep pourin...
...Approved and sent to conference the Vandenberg-Millikin compromise on reciprocal trade, which removed the House-approved congressional veto on tariff agreements. ¶ Tabled oleo tax repeal...
...George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
Trustless Rails? The Senate passed and sent to the White House the Bulwinkle Bill to exempt railroads and other common carriers from antitrust prosecution in connection with agreements on rates (but not on services, facilities, etc.) which are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Truman is expected to veto the bill. Congressional backers of the bill think they can muster enough votes to override a veto...
Like the double whammy, the double veto has elements of the supernatural. It begins when Russia vetoes a resolution on which, in the opinion of the majority, the veto does not apply. This forces the Council to take a vote on whether the veto applies or not. On this vote, however, the veto does count and therefore all debate is automatically ended...