Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he had requested before Congress adjourned for the conventions, he pointed out, only six had been acted upon. He called for an aid-to-education bill, medical aid for the aged, "constructive" farm measures, an increase in the minimum wage. And he added a warning that he would veto bills with unreasonably high price tags: "I shall not be a party to reckless spending schemes ... I shall not fail to resist inflationary pressures by whatever means are available...
...most impassioned critics of free and easy Philippine President Carlos Garcia is Congressman Sergio Osmeňa Jr.. 43, son of the wartime ex-President and himself a presidential prospect in next year's election. Last month, after Garcia vetoed a bill nationalizing the Chinese-dominated rice and corn distribution. Osmeňa loudly accused Garcia of taking a $5,000,000 bribe from Chiang Kai-shek to veto the bill, thereby protecting Chinese businessmen in the Philippines. Stung by the blast, Garcia replied: "If the people believe that, I should be impeached. But if the charge...
Before Congress packed up to go home last week, the Senate and House overrode their second Eisenhower veto (out of 169)-a bill providing a $764 million pay raise for 1,500,000 federal employees...
...Capitol Hill with an angry note that it was "indefensible by any light," and that Congress had yielded to "intensive and unconcealed political pressure." While blue-uniformed members of the nation's most effective lobby, the U.S. postal workers, packed the galleries, the House whooped past the veto, 346 to 69, with 89 (out of 145) Republicans deserting the President. The Senate concurred 74 (including 18 Republicans...
...Senate-passed bill approved by the Administration, calling for a 20% cut in wheat acreage and a continued price support of 75% of parity. In its place they wheeled out a bill raising supports to 85% of parity and slicing acreage by 25%-a formula President Eisenhower would surely veto. They planned to use that veto to scourge Republicans throughout the Midwest. The farm Democrats got a veto, all right, but to their shock, it came in a crushing 236-170 defeat of the bill by the Democratic-controlled House. Surprise defectors were big-city Democrats, who have for years...