Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudly proclaimed that the bill was bad because it favored the uncommon more than the common income. Actually the bill provided that taxes should be reduced three times as much on small incomes as on big ones. Harry Truman had taken this dubious line in his first veto. This time he came down hard on another reason: while the world was in such a critical state, "it is unwise to make so large a cut in our Government's future income...
...House overrode the veto 299 to 108. Republican leaders congratulated one another with grins and handshakes, but their joyfulness was short-lived. The Senate, by five votes, failed to override. Enough Democrats had been impressed by the "world crisis" argument...
While Democratic leaders grinned and shook hands in their turn, Republicans glowered. Colorado Senator Eugene D. Millikin, floor manager for the bill, had proclaimed the G.O.P. position during the debate. He had called the President's action a "foolish veto" prompted by "sheer ignorance or sheer demagoguery." Other Presidents, Millikin had said, had "a decent respect for the right of Congress to control fiscal policy...
Harry Truman clearly felt no such respect, even though the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to raise money and pay the nation's debts. The President's constitutional right to veto any bill was just as explicit. But his moral right to defy the will of the people's representatives twice in 32 days was a question that would arouse debate, and make Republican campaign fodder...
...most of its next-to-last week, the 80th Congress plodded along in the heat at dogtrot pace, breaking into sprints only when it came to political alleys. The Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator James...