Word: vetoes
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...billion for the current fiscal year. This was $400 million more than the original Administration request and $1.1 billion above the appropriation for the nine months that ended June 30. Further, the new bill gives Anti-Poverty Chief Sargent Shriver the right to reverse a Governor's veto of federal decisions to place certain types of projects in the Governor's state...
Marked Deck. Some Republicans and a handful of Democrats repeatedly lost bids to amend the authorization downward and impose administrative restrictions. Amendment after amendment went down in voice votes. The opposition came close only once, on the issue of the Governor's veto, when it lost a teller vote 155 to 150. Still, there were some lively protests...
...fight over the present bond issue, however, the governor has said that he would reject his own bill if it contained a local veto. Nevertheless, the House, led by Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), restored the veto before sending the bond issue to the Senate...
...Senate Ways and Means Committee deleted the veto provision by a vote of 9 to 2 before reporting the bill out late Monday. Senate president Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke) put off the crucial vote on the measure until yesterday in deference to Minority Leader Philip A. Graham (R. Hamilton...
State highway officials have contended that unless the veto provision is eliminated, Massachusetts's $1.2 billion Interstate system is doomed. The federal government will pay 90 per cent of the cost of the system, which is now about two thirds completed, if it is finished...