Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone in the group knew what Ford meant: the President had vetoed the $45 billion omnibus appropriation for health, welfare and labor programs late last year. Now the Democrats were rallying in an attempt to override the veto, and Ford was extremely anxious to foil them. The unwieldy bill contained $916 million for programs, mainly health, that the President felt the nation could not readily afford. House Minority Leader John Rhodes, Minority Whip Robert Michel, Congressmen John Anderson from Illinois and Barber Conable from New York knew that the President looked upon the vote as a key test...
...still debating the precise wording of an Arab-sponsored resolution affirming the Palestinians' "inalienable national right" to a homeland. Although the draft resolution also advocated security guarantees for all states in the area-a tacit acknowledgement of Israel's right to exist-the U.S. was expected to veto the resolution when it comes to a vote early this week...
Unfortunately, many people do consider a veto to be a negative action. I don't think it is. In the first place, the veto was put into the Constitution to give a President an opportunity to tell a Congress that a mere majority vote in both the House and Senate doesn't necessarily mean it is in the best interests of the country as a whole. A veto tells the Congress, "You had better think about it, and if you want to override it, you have to do better than 51%, and you have to have two-thirds...
...Israeli withdrawal from all territory occupied since the 1967 war. Although the U.S. reportedly would be amenable to a resolution that recognized "the legitimate interests" of the Palestinians, Moynihan?who is acting under precise instructions from a somewhat nervous State Department during this debate?said the U.S. would veto any formulation that mentioned Palestinian "rights" or Israeli withdrawal...
...Palestinian people," the language first used by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in their joint communique of June 1973. At the debate, the Egyptians will back the P.L.O. but also urge the Palestinians not to push too hard. Reason: Cairo does not want to provoke a U.S. veto, which would too clearly label Washington as an intransigent opponent of the Palestinians. Egyptian President Sadat may then find it increasingly difficult to continue supporting the U.S. initiatives for peace...