Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MINIMUM WAGES. Nixon announced that he would veto a bill passed by Congress setting the minimum wage at $2.20 an hour. That rate, an increase of 38% over the present $1.60 minimum, "would give an enormous boost to inflation" and might "deny employment opportunities to unskilled and younger workers" by requiring employers to pay more than their services are worth. Nixon said that he will ask Congress to write a new bill...
Given the presence of such strong and diverse personalities, it is perhaps surprising that any agreement could be reached at all. At week's end it fell to nonalignment's elder statesman, President Tito, to put forth several concrete proposals. They included: abolition of the big-power veto in the U.N. Security Council, periodic meetings of heads of state of General Assembly members to achieve unity on major issues and the establishment of a fund to help the victims of aggression, colonialism and foreign occupation...
...watertight" division of different functions was never their design. The Legislative Branch may organize the judiciary and dictate the procedures by which it transacts business. The judiciary may pass upon the constitutionality of legislative enactments and in some instances define the bounds of congressional investigations. The Executive may veto legislative enactments, and the legislature may override the veto. The Executive appoints judges and justices and may bind judicial decisions by lawful Executive orders. The judiciary may pass on the constitutionality of Executive acts...
...addition, the President's recent veto of the $ 185 million emergency-medical-services bill is a direct failure to meet previous statements and commitments to provide high-quality emergency services to all who need them...
...single farmer to $20,000 per crop. In the Senate version, big farmers could sidestep the law by temporarily parceling some of their land out to relatives and collecting the maximum subsidy four or five times on the same crop. Though the White House has threatened to veto the measure unless subdivisions are specifically barred and the escalator clause scrapped, there is no chance now to eliminate farm subsidies entirely...