Word: vetoes
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Ford also decided last week to compromise with Congress on another matter. To avoid what he called "a time-wasting test of strength," the President made a deal with the Democrats in which they agreed not to try to override his veto of legislation that would have postponed for 90 days his three-stage, $3-per-bbl. hike in the tariff on imported oil. In exchange, Ford postponed for 60 days two-thirds of the increase-halting the $1 that took effect on March 1 and putting off the $1 scheduled for April 1. Still in effect...
...Refunds. Thus Ford and the Democrats agreed that, as the President put it in his message accompanying the tariff-postponement veto, "the most important business before us-after 50 days of debate-is still the economic stimulant that could be provided by income tax refunds." That judgment was reinforced when the Labor Department reported that an additional 540,000 workers, most of them in manufacturing industries, were out of jobs in February (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). To help ease the jobless situation, Ford urged Congress last week to appropriate slightly more than $2 billion for 760,000 additional summer jobs...
...energy allowed him to argue, with considerable justification, that he had provoked the Democrats into coming up with alternatives to his energy program. Even so, the reaction of some G.O.P. leaders in Congress ranged from frigid to tepid. They told Ford that they were cautiously optimistic that the veto would be sustained in the Senate and that they were gaining ground in the House...
...issues, from foreign policy (see following story) to tax reductions and energy conservation. The major fight was over Ford's three-stage, $3-per-bbl. hike in the tariff on imported oil. Congress had voted to postpone the hike for 90 days, and Ford had promised to veto the legislation. But to prevent the Senate from overriding the veto, he had to persuade four Senators to switch to his side...
...week's end seven Democratic congressional leaders sat down with Ford in the Cabinet Room of the White House to propose a face-saving compromise. They hinted rather broadly that they were willing to let his veto stand I in exchange for a 60-day delay of two-thirds of the tariff increase-the $1 per bbl. that took effect at the end of last : week and the $1 scheduled for April 1. Ford would be left, however, with the $1 boost that took effect on Feb. 1. He promised to decide by early this week whether to accept...