Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nosed guns. Lucy Grantham, a member of the National Coalition said earlier this week that more organizations have supported the cause this year, including some religious and police associations. She added her organization has received assurances that Gov. Edward J. king, a past opponent of gun control, would not veto the bill...
Democrats in both houses, on the other hand, fear that the President would wield his veto power if they pushed an alternative of their own. "I went through that drill last year," recalls Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who had proposed a Democratic substitute for Reagan's tax cuts. "I came away unbowed but a little bloody. I can't move anything in the Congress." Democrats find themselves in an ambiguous political position. Most believe that Reagan's budget makes no economic sense and will severely prolong or even deepen...
...mere "adviser, moderator, implementer and integrating influence." He has no authority to settle disagreements among the others, who enjoy the advantage of actually commanding their services. Since any decisions the J.C.S. makes in its role of advising the Secretary of Defense must be unanimous, each member can wield a veto. Rather than continually report their disagreements to their civilian boss as they are required to do, the Chiefs tend simply to add up what each service wants, or to seek some minimum agreement with the aim, notes Jones, of "not goring anyone...
...approve a student government. Why should, in a parallel example. Massachusetts have any say in the constitution of California? Granted, if they choose to do so, the Faculty could have offered the student-composed constitution convention the benefits of their wisdom, but only in the form of advice--not veto. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, beggars cannot be choosers Students could, without Faculty approval, set up a centralized student government and elect representatives to it (Sounds like a Student Assembly to me) But since the Faculty control the money and authority-granting ability, we had no choice other than allowing...
...students will finally be able to decide the future of Harvard student government in the referendum on the constitution next week. I view the process with which the document was produced and in which many of us were closely connected with mixed emotions. The Faculty meddling and the eventual veto of our minority provisions was unwelcomed and unpleasant. Despite its claims of the provision's unworkability, there was never any doubt. I am now convinced, that the Faculty objected to the various proposals we presented them with on philosophical grounds...