Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he discovered that his department chiefs had gone over his head to ask the legislature for $100 million more than he had budgeted, he gave them a severe dressing-down and a reminder: "I must reluctantly but sharply call to your attention the fact that the governor has veto power ... to reject items in the appropriation bill." He also demanded and got tighter controls around the statehouse, on everything from inventories to excessively long coffee breaks. The result was a new realization that the governor meant business...
...Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were in mid-argument, the Secretary's phone rang. Humphrey answered it. Then he told the distinguished lobbyists that the President had just issued a memorandum of disapproval. He was killing the tax-relief bill by a pocket veto...
...message, the President noted that the price of tickets to the public would have remained the same even if the tax had been repealed. He based his veto on two points: 1) "We cannot afford the loss of revenue involved" (an estimated $200 million), and 2) "It is unfair to single out one industry for relief at this time." But the President did soothe the theater owners' heartburn. Agreeing that the tax is "not a good one," he promised to ask Congress to repeal it "early...
...Every bill must be signed by the President within ten days (not counting Sundays,) of the time it is delivered to him. If Congress is in session, bills not signed within ten days become law. If Congress has adjourned, as is now the case, unsigned bills are automatically vetoed-the so-called pocket veto...
...approval of the bill to sell the Government's 28 synthetic-rubber plants to private industry will not bring a quick sale. It will take almost until the bill's deadline of Jan. 31, 1955 to work out a detailed sales plan, and even then, Congress could veto...