Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water bill happened to be one of Congress's legislative showpieces this session; the Senate and House overrode the President's veto just before adjournment. Thus Nixon lost two major battles, but he may still have won the political war. He now has two pieces of evidence with which to convince American voters that he is a conscientious administrator, trying to check inflation and prevent tax increases, while the Democratic majority in Congress is simply profligate. As he often does, Nixon denied that he had even considered the politics of the situation. "I have nailed my colors...
...that forced delegates to cancel out of a planned farewell party for them and some 400 guests, proclaimed the leaders' common objective: European union by 1980. The nature of that union was not specified. The Dutch, heading the supranationalist contingent within the European Economic Community, even threatened to veto any progress toward monetary union unless it was accompanied by sufficient advances in political integration. The Belgians finally produced a compromise-that the Community leave it to the EEC Commission and the European Parliament to devise plans for political union-but set a three-year deadline for a blueprint that...
...water pollution by 1985, called for up to $24.6 billion in spending over the next three years, mostly on sewage-treatment plants (TIME, Oct. 16). That is almost three times as much as the President wanted, and therefore, he said, "unconscionable" and "budget-wrecking." Any vote against his veto, he added, would be "a vote to increase the likelihood of higher taxes...
...money. Congress provides a cornucopia-the act calls for spending of $24.6 billion over the next three fiscal years. That amount is almost three times as much as the White House has recommended. Indeed, Administration experts term the act "inflationary," and some have publicly advised the President to veto...
...tried to make the bill palatable to the economy-minded White House, specifically permitting the Administration to spend less than the authorized funds. Nonetheless, at week's end lawmakers feared that President Nixon would hold the measure, unsigned, until Congress adjourns in mid-October. Such a pocket veto would not give Congress a chance to override the President's action. If the bill is killed, warns Senator Muskie, "Before Congress can act again, more precious time will be lost in a battle where time is running out on our future...