Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debated the legislation, the President corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against the measure. Since the Senate passed a similar version in April, Bush's plan to rescue the thrift industry is likely...
...secure that cooperation in return for its legalization and a share of power. The centerpiece of the agreement was the cumbersome electoral law that granted the Communists and their allies 65% of the seats in the Sejm and allotted 35% to the opposition; a new 100-member Senate, with veto power over all legislation, was to be chosen in open elections; a powerful presidency, with control over the armed forces and security apparatus, would be filled by the Communist-controlled Parliament. Solidarity allowed the party and its allies a guaranteed majority on condition that the next legislative elections...
...union said Solidarity won almost all the seats it was allowed to compete for, indicating the opposition may have veto power in the two-chamber legislature...
Bush thinks such caveats are unnecessary and could still scuttle the program. Republicans are calling the Byrd resolution a "sour-grape amendment" from those Democrats who lost the vote to kill the whole deal. But the Senate vote, 72 to 27, provided a large enough margin to override a veto. Whether the plane ever takes off or not, the Japan-bashing rhetoric remains in full flight...
...marriage. "When you get home at 8:30, the last thing you want to do is get into business." It is equally unlikely that Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Wendy Gramm and her husband Senator Phil Gramm, famed for the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit limits, ponder the line-item veto during their off hours...