Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing so, the legislators were directly challenging Carter and imperiling his announced goal of a balanced budget by 1981. The President picked up the gauntlet at his news conference. In a five-minute opening statement, he politely but quite plainly threatened to veto bills that did not meet his standards of fiscal responsibility...
...houses of Congress raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than the two-thirds that would be necessary to override a presidential veto. Maine Senator Edmund Muskie complained that the bill would add $8 billion to the budget during the next four years...
Advocates of a federal Agency for Consumer Advocacy have never had easy going. Since 1970, bills to create such a watchdog have passed the House or Senate several times, only to wither in conference committees or under threat of a presidential veto. But persistence pays. Last week the future suddenly seemed brighter when President Carter, fulfilling a campaign promise, called for setting up a federal body to guard consumer interests...
...issues tends to obscure his pro-administration votes in other areas. Both Dukakis and Frank supported the move to change the commissioners at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination from a part- to a full-time basis, and Frank cast a crucial vote last year to sustain the administration's veto of the hospitals' certificate of needs bill. He enthusiastically supports the Cox Plan, Dukakis's court reform package, but claims the governor is doing little else to reform state administration...
...first round in a long game of negotiations. Moreover, the Soviets have a tradition of testing new U.S. Presidents. Washington had anticipated a Kremlin rejection of its proposals, but apparently miscalculated the mood and intention of the Russian leaders. Thus Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev's almost hostile veto of the U.S. proposals came as a shock. His frosty attitude and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's sarcastic comments at a Moscow press conference suggested U.S.-Soviet relations had plunged to the lowest level since the start of detente...