Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story partially was reported last November in the Times, and Reeves simply doesn't add much more. This means that some of the most interesting reading comes in the footnotes to Convention, where Reeves mentions the rumors that some New York congressmen voted not to override President Ford's veto of the strip-mining bill in exchange for a key Virginia congressman's vote for New York as the convention site...
...been lost on congressional leaders, who are seriously considering adding more stimulus than the Administration wants, probably in the form of fatter outlays for public works and revenue sharing for states and cities. The key question is how much more Congress can increase the program without risking a Carter veto. Though the Administration refuses to set any numerical limit, Charles L. Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, warns that the more Congress adds, the more likely a veto becomes...
...fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank-and-file veto power over contracts and a fat, three-year 54% wage-and-benefit increase negotiated in the last contract...
...Announced that he was thinking of ordering an end to gasoline price controls-a move that Congress could, and probably would, veto within 15 days...
...recruitment of new members to compensate for losses that the union has suffered because of automation of car plants and the move of many auto factories to Southern areas hostile to unionism. He also must placate the U.A.W.'s skilled workers, who are clamoring for the right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity; he is among the most admired men ever to serve the U.A.W. Rank-and-filers have never considered him a "pork-chopper," their term...