Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giaimo's side were some powerful allies, including an inflation-minded President who had threatened to veto any new programs that would make the budget deficit higher than $60 billion (the House resolution forecasts red ink of $57.9 billion) and many voters who oppose increasing the federal deficit. This same anti-inflation spirit turned House Republicans into a formidable force, even though they are outnumbered by Democrats, 288 seats to 147. In contrast to Senate Republicans, who let their budget resolution breeze through unchallenged last month, House Republicans set out to cut about $20 billion from the Democrats...
...probable sentence, Berkowitz will be eligible for release in 30 years. Such a prospect seems certain to increase support for proponents of the death penalty, who only two weeks ago failed by just one vote in the New York State senate to overturn Governor Hugh Carey's veto of a bill to reintroduce capital punishment. In that sense. Son of Sam and his demons may haunt New York for some time to come...
...Faculty's battle with student-run theater. Up until last year Loeb Drama Center shows were selected by the student Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC) board, which emphasized student-run shows. Last year the Faculty demanded and received equal representation with students on the initial show selection board and final veto power over that board's decisions. The result has been that this year and next, four professionals and only three students a year direct mainstage shows. One HDC board member predicts that in five years there will be no more student theater at the Loeb...
...Strauss has never failed at a public challenge yet. Even with the inflation odds running against him, he is an optimist and just recently he got hold of something in the fog. One morning Strauss told Carter that he was convinced the President's public threats to veto the emergency farm bill had led to the bill's strangulation in Congress, and this gave moneymen hope that Carter was going to be tough, and then this helped rally the stock market. Carter grinned, turned to others and said, "Bob has already learned what makes the stock market...
What happened next suggests how much has changed since the days of the so-called Imperial Presidency: Carter vetoed the bill in November (his first exercise of that power), but Clinch River ended up with $150 million for 1978 anyway, almost twice as much as had been voted, then vetoed. An override hadn't even been necessary. Breeder-backers Sens. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) easily subverted the veto--and got extra appropriations to boot--by securing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report saying Carter's termination of Clinch River was "substantially inconsistent" with the project...