Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second worse absentee record of any Republican Senator. Nor should it excuse the fact that Lodge was absent from 45 out of 46 roll call votes on price control during 1951 and 1952. Nor the fact that he was absent from the Senate floor when President Truman's veto of the notorious McCarran Immigration Bill came to a vote. The McCarran Act was passed over President Truman's veto by one more vote than was necessary...
...Truman denounced the McCarran Immigration Act for discriminating against south and east Europeans in favor of north Europeans. This act was drafted by a Senate Committee headed by a Democrat, Pat McCarran. It was officially approved by Harry Truman's State and Justice Departments. After Truman vetoed it, an overwhelming majority of Republicans and Democrats passed it over his veto. The day before Truman's message,' Eisenhower had forcefully attacked the McCarran Act.* He said: "We must strike from our statute books any legislation concerning immigration that implies the blasphemy against democracy that only certain groups...
...Dever Veto Antagonizes H.L.U...
Dever has been held in generally low esteem by many Liberal Union members since last October when he secretly signed the McCarthy Dorgan anti-subversive bill on the very day that the Liberal Union had sent him a petition urging veto. The petition was signed by 1000 students. The large amount of sentiment for Senator Lodge was unexpected in view of the group's endorsement of Kennedy for Congress two years...
...debate over Libya, Malik brought up an old Russian proposal for a package deal: if the Security Council admits Red satellites Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia, Russia will no longer veto such other Western-supported applicants as Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Nepal and Portugal...