Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate's speech--prepared for delivery on the day when recent legislation boosting Social Security benefits goes into effect--will outline McGovern's positions on senior citizens. President Nixon had strongly threatened to veto the increase in benefits...
...least $10 billion in the spending that otherwise would be likely, and would reduce the deficit by a like amount from the $35 billion now foreseen. If the President gets what he wants from Congress, he would have what Deputy Treasury Secretary Charls Walker calls a "retroactive item veto" over money bills that have already been passed. Aides are not saying what would be cut. Shultz pledges only that the Administration would not touch Social Security or revenue sharing with the states, and that it would squeeze merely "a nickel or two" out of the Pentagon's budget. Most...
Exactly ten months after China's admission to the United Nations, the Peking delegation last week wielded its first veto as a permanent member of the Security Council. The issue was particularly embarrassing for a country that had itself been excluded for 22 years-the admission of Bangladesh...
...discord became public this month after Berman tried unsuccessfully to veto three grants that had been endorsed by McArthur and approved by the endowment's 26-member governing council...
...ammunition. Nixon has told his campaign planners: "Our peopie don't have to go around talking about our budget deficit. Talk about how much McGovern's programs would cost." He also intends to throw the blame for the deficits on the Democratic Congress, pointedly using the veto between now and Election Day to underscore the point. He began last week by vetoing a $30.5 billion appropriations bill for social services because it was almost $1.8 billion more than he had asked...