Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaged in a new battle, the battle of the budget." Briefing congressional leaders the same day, he asserted: "For my part, I ran on a platform of no higher taxes. If we cannot hold this budget, one of two things will happen. I am ready, willing and able to veto [appropriations bills that push spending higher]. Or there will be higher taxes. Unless you want Congress to be known as a group of big spenders, you'd better study this budget...
...staff to promote women's athletics and "break down the machismo atmosphere." To help eliminate the distinction between so-called major and minor sports, he did away with admission charges to all Oberlin sporting events. And to give athletes more of a say, he granted them veto power over the selection of coaches and the right to help decide their own training rules. "There's more of a team feeling now," says Marty Dugan, co-captain of the basketball team. "It's not just the coach telling you to do something. There's room for questioning...
...ignore that body. Cried a frustrated Republican Senator, Ohio's William Saxbe, last week: "Is there any thing other than his own conscience that limits a President from any overt act? There's nobody that can touch him. No Security Council, no Joint Chiefs of Staff, no veto power-nothing...
...actions represent, among other things, a serious challenge to Congress as an institution. In Viet Nam, he has mined harbors and turned the massive bombing on and off like a spigot with no advance consultation with Congress and with explanation, if at all, only after the fact. He has vetoed congressional appropriations, which is his right. But he has also ignored Congress when it over rode his veto, refusing to spend the money appropriated-which is not his clear right. He has used a brief recess of Congress to "pocket veto" bills, extending a power intended only...
...back as Thomas Jefferson, who withheld some $50,000 that had been authorized for gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River. But this was generally done then because the need had passed or a project cost less than had been expected. Nixon has used this device as an expanded veto power, impounding some $6 billion in water-pollution control money and $5 billion in highway funds. Moreover, he asked Congress for the right to select which appropriations he could reject, in an effort to keep spending within $250 billion this fiscal year and the House meekly agreed. Mathias claims the House...