Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summit. The leaders agreed to adopt his proposals for basic institutional changes in the Community, which may eventually prove even more important than a decision by Britain to remain. Giscard received approval for a majority vote on most Community decisions. Until now, each country has been able to exercise veto power on even the most trivial matters; in the future, it will have the veto only on issues affecting its vital interests...
...Democrat but from Mr. Republican himself: Senator Barry Goldwater, who was simply stating in his customary blunt way what most other members of Congress, and a fan- number of Americans generally, feel. Last week the President was handed a smashing defeat, partly by his own party, when his veto of a veterans' benefits bill was overridden by a vote of 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate. The measure, which increased educational aid to veterans by 22.7%, was inflationary, and it was consistent for Ford to veto it. But little White House effort...
...Ford vetoes these measures, the Democrats are confident they will have the votes to override. "I'm ready to work with the President, and most members are," says House Speaker Carl Albert. "But we're not ready to veto the election we've just...
...promised Gerald Ford in his first presidential address. In part because of Ford's failures to practice his four Cs, his old friends on Capitol Hill Ig^Vrvr)' is overrode his vetoes of twc V" ^~V-, ^ ning margins. The first veto involved amendments to the 1966 Freedom of Information Act that would give citizens easier access to Government documents. Only 58 members of Congress-31 hi the House and 27 hi the Senate-stood with the President...
Ford's second veto was of a bill to extend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for one year, provide $851 million for programs to aid the handicapped and transfer the administration of the act's services to the office of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Here the margins were even more impressive. By 398 to 7 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate, Congress upheld the measure over the President's objection...