Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Budget deadlock, a veto, brief layoffs-and no solution in sight...
...wills between the White House and Capitol Hill on fiscal restraint, and the ambiguous outcome did credit to neither branch of Government. In what Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin aptly described as the "lost weekend," Ronald Reagan responded to his first defeat in Congress by casting his first veto. The President did so in defense of frugal government. Yet he acted at a moment when the Government was technically out of funds, and for one astonishing day, the federal bureaucracy actually began to shut down. Placed in a no-win situation, Congress grudgingly gave Reagan the minimum...
Democrats tended to blame the President and his party, rather than the process. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia termed the veto "a manufactured Shootout." House Speaker Tip O'Neill was unusually personal, scoffing at Reagan: "He knows less about the budget than any President in my lifetime." But Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte of the House Appropriations Committee put the blame more broadly on Congress, declaring, "We're the laughingstock of the nation." In fact, there was plenty of blame for all to share...
...bill--which would allow a local veto of the massive tax cuts mandated by 2 1/2 has "a good chance of passing" in the Senate, city councilor David E. Sullivan said last night, adding that the legislation has the support of both Cambridge state senators, considered crucial on home rule bills...
Revolted by a steadily increasing torrent of trash, Massachusetts environmentalists have lobbied for years to get a bill on the books requiring returnable beverage cans and bottles. Back in 1979, the first time they succeeded in getting a bill through the state legislature, Governor Edward King vetoed it. When the measure was passed again last September, King cast a second veto. But this time the state house of representatives overrode the veto. And last week the Massachusetts senate voted 29 to 10 to override the Governor...