Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislation say that if the consumer offices that already exist were not doing their job, then Congress has the responsibility and authority to reform them and then do a better job supervising them. passage of the ACP so that Ford would not have to exercise his threatened veto against the vociferous consumerists. Since the agency is initially budgeted for $15 million, and $25 million thereafter, Congress Watch claims the reorganization will mean an immediate savings of some $5 million per year...
Indeed, the Arabs hope that Washington, which has been following the Palestinian moves from a distance, may decide not to veto the Arafat proposal but abstain instead. They are encouraged by the fact that the U.S., which has held Palestinian groups at arm's length until they recognized Israel, has begun unofficially at least to bend this policy to make some contacts. During his visit to Geneva last month, for instance, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young met and briefly chatted with Daud Barakat, the P.L.O.'s representative there...
...President was getting along because he was going along. After threatening to veto big spending bills, he compromised more than people thought he would. He reached agreement with Congress on a raise in the minimum wage, from $2.30 an hour to $2.65 an hour, and on a farm price-support bill that may cost $4 billion this year instead of his original limit of $2.3 billion. Says O'Neill: "Carter's people came down here with a chip on their shoulder against Congress. Carter thought Congress was like the rednecks of the Georgia legislature." Now O'Neill...
...board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them a lO?-per-gal. soft-drink tax. The senate scuttled that one too. No matter. Thomson announced that he would veto any budget with a soda-pop tax. Furious representatives, saying their work had been done, recessed the house. Thomson called an emergency session for this week...
...MONTH, the Massachusetts legislature will consider a bill similar to those that have already cut off Medicaid abortion payments in eight states. At the moment, the legislature seems likely to pass it. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has said he will veto the bill if it passes, but no politician is completely trustworthy on this issue; the anti-abortion lobby is far too vocal for an elected official to ignore. Anti-abortionists have already begun to lobby for the votes they would need to override the veto, anyway. Public opinion polls have shown repeatedly that a vast majority of Americans believe...