Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another veto, on the Republican income tax cut bill, is promised for tomorrow by President Truman, while Republican leaders claim if they are unable to override the veto "taxpayers will have no tax relief for another year...
...biggest congressional belt buckle was the tax reduction bill which Harry Truman had vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman's desk at least ten days before adjournment, thus prevent a pocket veto (i.e., killing the bill by inaction after Congress is out of session...
...that was not all. Crowed the G.O.P.'s spokesman: "We're going to hand him some tough legislation on Communists in government and dare him to veto. We're going to give him some trouble on his Pendergast associations and the Kansas City frauds. Now it's our turn...
Everything that Murray brought forth was quickly beaten. He wanted to make the presidency a paid job. He also wanted to give the Guild's International Executive Board a veto power over local strikes. Both proposals were defeated...