Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Dr. Howard H. Hiatt '46, Dean of the School of Public Health, Dr. David G. Nathan '51, associate professor of Pediatrics, and Professor Weller made statements last week urging a Sargent veto of the state bill...
...UNIONIST GOALS. We would never form a government that would give [Ulster's Catholic] minority a veto over the whole constitution. Sunningdale [the power-sharing agreement] was merely the trigger. The real target was the destruction of the Executive. We may not get everything we want, but we're in a position to stop anything we don't want...
...foreign policy, making it clear to both the U.S. and Britain, the traditional big brothers, that Canberra will no longer follow the lead of Washington and London. Many of his proposed domestic reforms were stymied, however, by the opposition of the Senate, which rarely initiates legislation but does have veto power. During the first four months of this year alone, the Senate, in which the Liberal and Country parties have a majority, blocked no fewer than 42 out of 43 Whitlam proposals. At week's end the final count of the Senate vote had barely begun. Yet even...
...terms for members, remained firmly in the hands of the opposition Liberal-Country Party coalition. The opposition could count on 31 votes, while Labor had only 26 seats. The Australian Senate is supposed to act only as a slowing brake on the House of Representatives, with deliberative-but not veto-powers. In fact, the conservative-dominated body managed to stop Whitlam's more radical domestic innovations altogether...
...Senator likes to vote against a tax cut in an election year. In the House, the bill's fate probably will be determined by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Last week he seemed cautiously receptive. The President has let it be known that he would veto any tax-cut bill...