Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, overriding a veto by Mayor Joseph Alioto, the city's board of supervisors approved a new law that prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to families with children. Violations will subject offenders to fines...
...excites him is the environment. With a B.S. in forestry from Utah State and a three-month stint behind him as a ranger in Yellowstone National Park, Jack speaks forcefully and knowledgeably on environmental issues. But he does so mostly in private with the President. Of Dad's veto of the strip-mining bill that would have placed tough restrictions on mining companies, Jack says only: "He took a little different approach to it than...
...Administration hopes the Senate will kill the measure; if it does not, a veto is likely. But one-third of the Senate has endorsed a resolution opposing changes in the Panama treaty. Since the Senate has to approve all treaties by a two-thirds majority, the Administration faces hard times in advancing toward what Kissinger described to the Panamanians as "a new and more modern relationship between our two countries...
...Democrats overestimated their own ideological unity and underestimated Ford's clout, particularly in the House, where he served for 25 years, eight as minority leader. In what amounted to a counterattack, he vetoed key Democratic bills that would have raised farm price supports to boost food production, stiffened regulation of strip mining, stimulated the housing industry through subsidies of mortgage interest and would have appropriated $5.3 billion to ease unemployment by creating 1 million public jobs. Each time Ford and his aides mustered enough votes among Republicans and fiscally conservative Southern Democrats to sustain the vetoes in the House...
Tsongas' disillusionment began when 22 Democrats voted with the Republicans to sustain President Ford's veto of the jobs bill. For the first time, he realized the extent of power wielded by a President in league with a disciplined, albeit minority party, v. a mammoth but unruly majority in Congress. Advocating stronger party discipline, Tsongas became the spokesman for a group of dissident Democratic freshmen that last month persuaded Speaker Albert and Majority Leader O'Neill to sit down and discuss the problems of leadership. (To date, nothing but some good will has come...