Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...92nd Congress will not be seated until January, and in the interim the White House wanted very much to demonstrate forward momentum by winning its first important test in the current lame-duck session. When the showdown came last week-on a Senate move to override a Nixon veto-the Administration won a close fight...
...issue was more than a bill to put a ceiling on candidates' expenditures for political advertising on TV and radio. It was also made clear to G.O.P. Senators that support of the veto was to be a test of party loyalty. The bill had been a popular measure, passing the Senate 60-19. While its backing was bipartisan, Nixon's veto was not. The Republicans have more campaign funds to spend than the Democrats and thus have more to lose by an expenditure limit. Another point on many legislators' minds was the belief that the public...
...boys and girls") and concluded with the Kennedy-like assertion that therefore "the business of this country is unfinished," the rafters rang more loudly than they had for any of Senator Byrd's polyloquence. And so they did again when Mr. McGovern asked acidly of President Nixon's veto of the education bill, "if it's inflationary to invest dollars in young minds, why then is it not inflationary to build an antiballistic missile system we do not need...
Nixon could still wage a vigorous fight against the Mills bill in the Senate. If it passes, he would do well to veto it, even at the price of delaying an increase in Social Security benefits. If the bill becomes law, he could use the "national interest" clause to weaken the trigger mechanism. The President's waffling so far, however, leaves scant hope that he will do any of these things. If he does not. the black comedy could become a horror story...
Radcliffe deans may veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...