Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into 1976. Last October, Ford urged Congress to reduce taxes by $28 billion next year, but he also asked the legislators to agree to cut spending by the same amount. Without promising to reduce spending, Congress gave Ford a bill that would extend the 1975 tax cuts. Ford promptly vetoed the measure, which would have reduced taxes by $18 billion. The House then failed by 17 votes to override the veto. That left both Congress and the White House appearing to be against a tax cut, a difficult situation with an election year coming up. Congress whipped together a compromise...
...single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
...industry, a traditional bastion of Republican strength, is bitterly opposed to the bill. Oilmen argue that a price cut in crude oil would reduce the incentive to drill wells in search of new sources of supply. Reagan has urged the President to veto the bill. At week's end Ford's closest advisers were still not certain whether the President would turn down the bill, thereby repudiating Zarb and angering millions of Americans who drive cars or heat their homes with oil. The odds that Congress would overturn a veto are too close to call...
...Industry Collective Bargaining Committee might well curb inflationary wage settlements, Reagan opposes the overall measure because of the picketing provisions. Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the President's campaign manager, has warned that signing the bill would hurt him "in every one of the 50 states." Ford is expected to veto the bill. Dunlop might then resign...
...Ford does veto the bill, he will be serving notice just before Christmas that he will be taking money out of millions of Americans' paychecks. The Democrats may have enough votes to override the veto and take credit for being the proud parents...