Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, the House nonetheless indulged itself in the political pleasures of a week-long debate on a civil-rights bill that had long since been doomed. The House did manage to work constructively for about two minutes: the time it took to deal with a presidential veto. President Eisenhower had turned down the $2.1 billion military construction bill for a good reason: it invaded the executive field by requiring the consent of congressional committees for Defense Department action on guided missile and military housing programs. The House approved a new version, with the objectionable clauses removed...
...work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic effort: egged on by National Chairman Paul Butler, the Senate Democrats hoped to pass the bill, draw an Eisenhower veto that would, in the power-conscious Northwest, help the campaigns of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson...
With most of his program gone with the Baton Rouge wind, Earl Long was still ready and willing to play with fire to get his way: if his timber tax bill failed to pass, he warned, he might veto a measure appropriating funds for fire fighting in Louisiana's vast forests...
...country, and a president, who has always been an American. Only member nations were allowed to apply for loans, and since voting strength was weighted by the size of each national subscription (the U.S. has a 30% vote), the U.S. and other like-minded countries could exercise an effective veto over any tendency to pauper profligacy by have-not partners...
...This future Algeria would be part of a new "French Federation," and Frenchmen in Algeria would hold dual nationality in both France and Algeria. The new Algerian state would have internal autonomy, but France would continue in control of its army and foreign relations and keep a veto on its finances...