Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much attention to them because Nixon's intentions are suspect on Capitol Hill. Senator Edward Kennedy called the message a "thinly veiled attempt by the President to obstruct or even kill the most effective response Congress has yet made to Watergate."Nixon implied that he would veto the public-financing measures, which have drawn support from Congress despite presidential opposition...
...energy bill was fed into the congressional legislative mills last October, President Nixon vigorously stressed its importance in helping the Administration meet the nation's fuel crisis. Last week the long-stalled measure won final congressional approval. But instead of welcoming the bill, the President now vows to veto it, leaving the nation's energy policy little advanced beyond where it was at the start of the emergency and transforming the problem of fuel shortages into what could be an explosive political issue...
Voting largely along party lines, the House passed the bill 258 t0151- a margin insufficient to override a veto-after an impassioned plea by West Virginia Democrat Harley Staggers. "Do you want to go home and tell your farmers, your small businessmen and little plastic companies that you were down here trying to help them?" he asked. By passing the measure, the Democrats figured to satisfy angry demands from constituents that they do something to ease the energy pinch-and to pin political liability for killing the bill squarely on the President. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, a leader...
...either of the first two steps were to be tied up by White House legal maneuvers, the committee could seek legislation in Congress to acquire the evidence. Nixon could veto the bill, but Congress would probably override such an obviously self-serving move...
...Arab oil flow resumes. Yet in its present mood of hostility to oil companies, Congress will almost certainly ignore the President's request and stick with the original Emergency Energy Act, including some provision to limit excess profits. If so, the President has indicated that he will veto the measure...