Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of his anti-inflation campaign, the President threatened to veto two major bills: the tax and the public works measures. Both may soon involve him in major conflicts. Taxes. With his impeccable sense of timing, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long finally released his committee's version of the tax bill. Since Congress is trying to adjourn by October 14, Senators had little time to digest the fine print in the complicated act, and Long would just as soon they did not. As he once told a Senator fretting over the meaning of a provision...
...Carter vetoed the bill "in the name of fiscal responsibility" and warned Congress he would continue to veto what he considers "wasteful legislation...
...bill, Carter's sixth veto, contained $6.1 billion for the Department of Energy and down payments on 53 water projects, six of which Carter attempted to veto last year...
Carter stated in his veto message that "each bit of additional spending always looks small and unimportant against the total federal budget," adding that Congress and the executive branch "must recognize that there is no one single dramatic act which will control the budget...
Leaders of both parties opposed the veto and an override seemed certain but White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday prior to the vote that "the people will believe the president has done the right thing" regardless of the outcome...