Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mass of hypocrisies. It is interesting to note that California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who applauded the refusal to allow prosecution of Richard Nixon on the ground that "he has suffered as much as any man should," had two days earlier announced his intention to veto a bill lowering the possible penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana from ten years' to six months' imprisonment. Is it any wonder that the poor, the ethnic minorities and the young, who are the real consumers of the criminal law, regard it as stacked in favor of the rich...
...fully agree that President Ford is earnest in his intentions of holding down federal spending, as is evidenced by his veto of a $47 million health research program. However, in his zeal to instill a "sense of self-sacrifice," Mr. Ford may have overlooked the fact that some people may not have that much to "sacrifice"-especially those whom the health research program was designed to help...
...bills-most notably, the House fails to provide for any public funding of congressional campaigns-which will be considered by a House-Senate conference committee early this month. A more critical question is whether President Ford, who, like Nixon, has opposed public funding of political campaigns, will sign or veto the resulting legislation...
President Ford can set a new tone of openness and accountability at the federal level, but he must do it through specific acts. Congress will soon pass a bill for public financing of presidential campaigns. Mr. Nixon said he would veto any such bill. If President Ford signs the bill into law, that will be one clear sign that he intends to clean up the political process...
...House narrowly passed a bill providing $20.4 billion in federal aid to mass transit over the next six years, Ford urged amendments that would slash the total to $11 billion (congressional Democrats are proposing to meet him halfway by cutting the bill to $15.8 billion). Ford is expected to veto another measure, already passed by Congress, that raises education benefits for veterans, and to ask the lawmakers to repass the bill after several hundred million dollars have been cut from it. Some aides predict that Ford will veto every spending bill that provides more money than the Administration requested...