Word: vetoes
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...Guide. Whether that restraint will continue is uncertain. The House and Senate budget proposals will now go to a joint conference committee, which will reconcile the difference. The eventual joint recommendation will be a key guideline. Congress can later add new spending programs, but Ford would probably veto them. Last week the President did veto a bill that would have raised price supports and income guarantees to farmers (TIME, April...
...Indeed, for four decades Government policy consisted of a labyrinth of props under income that expanded until it cost taxpayers $4 billion in 1972. By overhauling the old system, the Nixon Administration trimmed the price tag to about $500 million last year. Unless Congress can now override a presidential veto of the 1975 bill-which seems unlikely-the cost of farm supports may well continue to decline...
...back by Congress; Ford also pointed out that the President's capacity even to threaten retaliatory military moves had been curtailed by a congressional ban in July 1973 against money for any further U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia and by the War Powers Resolution passed over a Nixon veto in November 1973. The eventual result, according to Ford, was that 18 North Vietnamese divisions had been sent into the South. That, in turn, led President Thieu to order what Ford termed, in an understatement, a "poorly executed . . . strategic withdrawal" from the northern provinces. That withdrawal turned into a rout...
Reluctantly Signed. After three days of throwing out hints of a possible veto, President Ford took television time to announce that he had reluctantly decided to sign the bill - and he did so in front of the TV cameras. He called the overall size of the tax cut "within reason" and said that he was signing it because "our economy needs the stimulus and support of a tax cut and needs it now." Ford complained of "a lot of extraneous changes" of tax law in the bill and said that it failed to give "adequate relief to middle-income taxpayers...
Practically, Ford had little real choice, since both the political and economic risks of a veto would have been too high. A Harris poll revealed last week that more than 80% of the public already lacked confidence in Ford's antirecession program; that rating would not have improved if Ford had introduced further delay on a tax stimulus that he had called for. While the House might conceivably have sustained a veto, any new bill would similarly have been open to countless amendments and could have taken a month or two to pass. At best, Ford might have picked...