Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy will revive enough by late summer to give its budget a lift and help prepare the party for the November elections. "The President is in the catbird seat," contends one of his top aides, referring to the budget process. "He has his program, and he has the veto power...
...irrational" hope is that 30 years from now one of these souls sitting on a committee which controls an investment bank's loan policy may connect "racism" (having correctly identified the term on his Soc. Stud. generals) with loaning money to South Africa and veto such a policy. He will have changed things And he will have done so by putting on a pin striped suit and walking around Harvard Yard or spilling his guts on the Crimson's editorial page...
...Public Power System are 500 percent over budget and six years behind schedule. With $6.8 billion in outstanding debt. WPPS is the largest borrower ever in the municipal bond market; but it can't get any more funds because Washington's voters recently approved a ballot proposition giving themselves veto power over any more WPPS bond issues. As Joseph Swidler, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, succinctly put it. "Utilities have run out of money." Nuclear power, then, is both an environmental nightmare and an economic basket case...
...withdraw from the Sinai on schedule, and will keep talking with Egypt about granting autonomy to the Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already reaffirmed its commitment to withdrawal by April 26, and Washington in turn has told Israel that the U.S. will veto any U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for sanctions against the Israelis because of their annexation of the Golan Heights...
Under that law, Congress sets overall spending, revenue and deficit targets in two budget resolutions that are not even sent to the President for signature or veto. These are backed up, if necessary, by a "reconciliation" bill ordering committees of the two houses to make any changes in specific spending and tax bills needed to meet the targets. Congress during the Ford and Carter Administrations treated presidential proposals as mere starting points for proceeding to chart its own budgets...