Word: vetoes
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Where to Trim. The hang-up is largely political. Because the $19.7 billion bill is $1.1 billion more than President Nixon has requested, he considers it inflationary, and has promised to veto it when it reaches him, probably this week. It was passed by the Senate overwhelmingly (74 to 17) last week and sent to the House for approval of a minor amendment. Congressional Democrats, claiming that they already have cut $5.6 billion from Nixon's requests, rate education as an item of top national priority and prefer that the Administration trim somewhere else in the fight against inflation...
...bill also contains funds for such health programs as hospital construction and public health service grants to states. If the President does veto it, the battle will shift first to the House, where a two-thirds majority vote would be required to override the veto. It would then have to clear the Senate by the same margin. The fight is putting Republicans on the spot, too, because it is difficult to justify the reduction of $1.1 billion in health and education funds as vital to checking inflation in a nearly $200 billion budget. Republican Senator George Aiken, usually an Administration...
...tired of the Patriot's continual pleas for a stadium. This may not be enough to assure the bill's defeat: Senate President Maurice Donahue may well decide to push hard for its passage, in order to embarrass Gov. Sargent - no friend of Donahue's - by forcing him to veto it or back down from his previous opposition to using eminent domain on Harvard Stadium...
...including a say in choosing a director. Prouvost was unbending, and the dispute led to a warning strike in October 1968 and a 15-day staff walkout last May. Finally, Prouvost agreed to the staffers' demand for enough seats on a proposed management committee to give them the veto right they sought. But when he made a bid for the power "to engage or discharge all members of the staff," negotiations fell apart, and the matter went into court-where it remains. Meanwhile, the paper is being managed by a public administrator...
...Senate, composed of 78 faculty and administration officials and 23 students, recommend that existing classified contracts be made non-classified or terminated within one year. The new regulations also forbid the university to accept any contract in which the outside organization, public or private, requests the power to veto publication of the research findings...