Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a great many of Italy's intellectuals and artists, who make it a point of honor to be at least cafe Communists - and sometimes more than that. Without ever coming really close to power again, the Italian Communist Party exerted a continuing influence - sometimes merely a veto - in Italian politics...
...implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration loyalists, the Dirksen rider...
...Senate, the bill passed by a margin of nearly 2 to 1, but only after Administration forces stood still for a $15 million cut and a Southern-sponsored amendment that gave state Governors veto powers over several of the bill's programs within their states...
...themselves giving ground both to segregationists and states'-righters. Thus an amendment, by Mississippi's Democratic Congressman John Bell Williams, requiring loyalty oaths of all youths enrolling in the bill's job corps, passed 144 to 112. And the House upheld the Senate's gubernatorial veto provision...
...course, only a few of the more acute spectators will be aware of anti-poverty's potential weaknesses. Few will know or care about the veto power given to the governors who object to integrated projects, will realize that this could cripple the program where it could do the greatest good--in the South. Few will know or care about the loyalty oath requirement which tramples the civil liberties of those who participate in the program...