Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a two-hour meeting with the Governors, Carter discussed the West's criticisms of his efforts to block certain major water projects, push large-scale synthetic fuels development, and station a new MX mobile missile system in Nevada and Utah. He agreed that the Governors should have veto power over where synfuel plants are to be placed in their states, that a Westerner should sit on the proposed Energy Security Corporation if Congress approves its creation, and that the states should get federal help if large numbers of either synfuel or missile construction workers should flood particular localities...
...solid majorities, the left won out on two of the three proposals. The task of drafting the manifesto was put into the hands of the national executive committee, robbing the party leader of his veto power in shaping policy. From now on Members of Parliament will have to submit to renomination by their local constituency parties midway through their terms-making them "poodles" on a short leash, as one moderate M.P. angrily remarked. Only the bloc votes of some moderate trade unions saved Callaghan from defeat on the third proposal: the choice of the party leader will remain...
...record as opposing the dam, faced a bitter choice. The bill reportedly contained no other pork barrels that he had fought, and it kept alive his Water Resources Council, an independent body that judges future projects. Moreover, the Endangered Species Act was due for congressional review, and a Tellico veto might leave it endangered. Carter also felt a need to build good will for upcoming legislative battles. So he signed the bill, saying: "I accept, with regret, this action as expressing the will of the Congress...
...accepted as an essential part of last year's "internal settlement" with Smith. The Bishop then agreed to a British proposal calling for the reduction of white seats in the 100-member Parliament from 28 to 20 and the elimination of the blocking mechanism, under which whites can veto constitutional changes for the next ten years. Smith, the leader of the country's 220,000 minority whites and a man who as Prime Minister had once vowed to resist majority rule "for a thousand years," found himself isolated even among his fellow white delegates. They reluctantly consented...
...ever restless Governor, his shifts to the right did not seem to be paying off. Determined to honor his pledge to reduce spending, he vetoed two bills that would have given state employees a bigger pay increase than he favored. But both vetoes were overridden by a mutinous state legislature, which also overturned a third Brown veto. Until this rebellion, the legislature had overridden only three vetoes in 33 years. Another of Brown's favorite conservative causes is bogged down: the drive for a Constitutional Convention to approve an amendment to balance the federal budget...