Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three of the communities have threatened to veto those portions of the Inner Belt passing through their jurisdiction, under the provisions of a 1961 state law giving them such veto power...
Quenched Oratory. Then the President poured it on the Republicans. "In January of 1961 a government of veto and obstruction and do-nothingism was thrown out of office, and a government here in this state of West Virginia, under your Governor, and a government in Washington committed to progress began to work together for the state of West Virginia, and the result in that brief period has been a marked improvement in the economic climate of this state...
Chairman Ben Heineman nor Telegraphers' Chief George E. Leighty would yield on the strike's key question: the union's demand for the right to veto future job cutbacks. This and other unresolved issues will be submitted to binding arbitration this week by a three-man team (Heineman, Leighty and Lawyer Sylvester Garrett, chairman of the U.S. Steel-Steelworkers' arbitration board). The arbitrators will probably hew to a policy recommended by an Administration fact-finding board last June. It proposed union-management consultation on payroll cutbacks, came out against a union veto, but urged adequate compensation...
...lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents. But the Congress has sufficient sophistication to realize that aid administered for sheer compassion will be badly administered; it will usually involve...
...nearly every fight on the bill, almost killed the entire package with his insistence on an amendment to permit self-employed persons to deduct up to $1,750 of gross income a year for payments to their own retirement pension plans-a proposal Kennedy hinted might bring a veto of the whole bill. To arguments that his provision should be treated separately, Dirksen replied: "If an egg is good, it is good whether it is served up alone or with a dozen other eggs; the measure is a good . egg." His amendment was tabled, 45-41, but only after...