Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of 297 to 120, the House this week passed the Knutson $6.5 billion tax-cut bill. Bolstered by 63 Democratic rebels, Republicans piled up a margin large enough to override an expected presidential veto with 19 votes to spare. Democrats didn't have a chance. Just before the final vote, the House had rejected their substitute bill, which would have made up for revenue losses with a new excess-profits...
...short, "a major threat to the nation's financial integrity." Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic votes to override a veto...
Said Gromyko: "This is one thing you cannot blame on the Soviet Union." He meant the snow. More effectively than the veto, the Great Snow paralyzed...
...veto-free "Little Assembly" met for the first time. The same faces gathered around the same microphones-with one exception: the Russians were boycotting the "Little Assembly." The Russian microphone was dead...
...been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...