Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role of the Board has never been carefully defined," Connet said, adding that board members would like veto power over hiring decisions for the Center's staff and authority to participate in the interviewing process...
Ford needs that increase and thus might find it difficult to veto the bill. When Treasury Secretary William Simon testified before the Ways and Means Committee, Green denounced the Administration for acting in the tradition of Watergate. "We are being treated in an ultimatum fashion," he complained. "We are beginning this exercise in an atmosphere not of compromise but in one of confrontation." Said new Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, who had tried to persuade Ford to put off the proclamation: "We're extremely disappointed with the President. I wonder if the President might be playing games with...
Congress might also raise federal spending more than Ford plans, thus pumping still more money into the economy. Ford in his State of the Union speech vowed to veto any new federal spending programs that Congress might enact. But spending on several costly programs, including military pensions and Social Security payments, is tied to the movements of the consumer price index. Those outlays will rise automatically, well beyond the 5% limit that Ford proposes, unless Congress actively votes to hold them down, and there are few things that a liberal Democratic Congress would be less likely...
...first test, the Vanik Amendment breezes through the House 319 to 80. Kissinger says that he might recommend a presidential veto of the entire trade bill if a compromise on the amendment cannot be found...
...President's promise to veto new expenditure programs could well help set a tone in curbing expenses for such programs as Social Security, welfare, make-work public employment schemes and an expensive national health insurance plan. All of these programs are inflationary...