Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall when the nation's voters gave the Democrats a 2-to-1 majority on Capitol Hill, Republicans warned disconsolately that the Congress would be virtually "veto-proof"-"probably the most dangerous we've ever had," as Arizona's Barry Goldwater called it. The Democrats rejoiced in those post-Watergate days that they had seized the initiative from the White House. Armed with what House Speaker Carl Albert spoke of as their "mandate," the Democrats set about formulating a broad new economic policy of their own-tax rebates, a tax cut, lowered interest rates, devices...
Some lawmakers are already prodding the Democratic leadership into trying to block Ford's plan shortly after Congress returns this week from its ten-day Memorial Day recess. In March, Ford vetoed a bill suspending his authority to raise import fees. So, blocking the tariff boost now would require a two-thirds majority in both House and Senate; a coalition of Republicans and oil-state Democrats could well sustain the veto. The decontrol proposal is far more vulnerable; it could be shelved by a simple majority of either house within five days after being received...
...which starts in July, v. a $51 billion forecast earlier. That almost certainly reflects President Ford's policy proposals and insistence that a $60 billion deficit is the biggest the nation can stand. To safeguard his objective, Ford can derail some congressional spending plans. Last week he vetoed a $5.9 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it provided more money for summer jobs, greater unemployment compensation and other programs than he had requested; Democrats are uncertain that they can override the veto. Nonetheless, Congress is sure to raise spending enough to push the actual fiscal 1976 deficit to $70 billion...
Congressional confusion allows the President to take the lead, and Ford is willing to do so. Last week he vetoed a bill to regulate the strip mining of coal, arguing that the restrictions arrived at to protect the environment would be too costly for consumers and reduce coal production. Though the bill had passed the House May 7 by a 293-to-115 margin, the Democratic leaders put off until June 10 attempts to override it. As of last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy...
Congress and the White House cannot agree either. President Ford pocket vetoed a strip-mining bill last December, but later said that he would sign it if 27 changes were made. Last week Congress voted overwhelmingly to send an only slightly modified bill back to the White House. Administration officials have hinted at another veto, but the chances of the bill becoming law are nonetheless fairly strong. So many Senators favored the bill that the Senate last week did not bother to take a count, but passed it by voice vote. In the House, the bill passed by a margin...