Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York legislators overrode Governor Hugh Carey's attempts to veto millions in spending last July, but now face a deficit that could go as high as $1 billion in this year's $27 billion budget. For the first time since 1975, the state may have to borrow money to bridge the gap. A special session of the legislature is likely in December...
Last fall when the legislature overrode Governor King's veto of a law imposing a deposit on beverage bottles and cans, opponents secured the signatures needed to place the issue on the ballot. A majority of "no" votes on Question 4 will repeal the law, which otherwise will take effect, as scheduled, on January...
...Minnesota statute that allows parents a tax deduction for their children's private-school tuition. Then there is the so-called Betamax case: Are U.S. copyright laws violated when video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative veto, a device in some 200 laws that allows Congress to disapprove regulations issued by federal agencies. And in cases to be argued this week the Justices may have to second-guess the Reagan Administration's decision last January no longer to support the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions...
...declared, "What you want to do is make the West Bank part of Israel." Vance added, "The whole idea is to let the people govern themselves. You are retaining a veto!" Begin responded, "We want to keep the right to do so?but we don't intend to do so." I said, "No self-respecting Arab would accept this. It looks like a subterfuge. We are talking about full autonomy?self-control. You are not giving them autonomy if you have to approve their laws, exercise a veto over their decisions and maintain a military
...Palestinians, and I pushed him on how much freedom they would have. He replied that the only powers they would not be able to exercise would be those relating to immigration of Palestinian refugees and the security of Israel. This sounded good, but later the Israelis would seek a veto over almost anything of substance the Palestinians could decide, even claiming that road construction and water supplies affect the security of Israel...