Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill that would tax away "excess" profits that are not quickly spent to increase supply. The tax bill also would raise oil company taxes $16 billion over the next six years by phasing out the depletion allowance and tightening taxes on foreign profits. President Nixon has threatened to veto the price rollback and excess-profits tax if he considers them unduly punitive. But siding with the oil industry is becoming increasingly unpopular for any politician...
...legislature rushed a bill to repeal the imbalance plan through the House and Senate, and following a final vote, sent the repeal measure to Gov. Francis W. Sargent. Sargent is expected to veto the bill...
...wide-ranging bill calling for public financing of all congressional and presidential elections, primary and general. But the House is likely to rule out public funding for congressional elections. And even if the House does approve public financing of presidential races, Richard Nixon has served notice that he will veto such legislation as "a raid on the public treasury...
...passed since the Watergate breakin, and nothing has been accomplished. Despite the Senate action, prospects for significant reform are still dim because of stonewalling by Wayne Hays (whose appetite for reform, in the words of the public lobby Common Cause, "is near zero") and the threat of a Nixon veto...
...summer went on, the various appropriations bills would move through Congress much as before, with politicians pushing their favorite projects; then the bills would go to the President for his signature or veto. By mid-August, after adding up the appropriations that had been passed, the two budget committees would report out a second concurrent resolution that reaffirmed or revised the earlier goals. If Congress agreed that too much money had been spent, it would have to pass a "reconciliation bill," which would reduce expenditures that had already been approved, or raise taxes-or perhaps do a bit of both...