Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration. Time has just about run out for Congress and the White House to make tough economic choices. The legislators have until the end of this week, Nov. 20, to appropriate money to keep the Government running, and the President will have to decide whether to veto bills that pierce his budget ceilings. Worse, the decisions will be made in an atmosphere of confusion, worry and even gloom created by the deepening recession that had called the Administration's policy into question even before Stockman sowed further doubts...
...ceilings set by Congress last summer. The resolution expires on Friday, when it is supposed to be superseded by regular appropriations bills. But Reagan noted that most of the twelve appropriations bills pending in Congress specify spending considerably higher than he wants. The President said, "I stand ready to veto any bill" that costs too much...
...Vetoing the continuing resolution would bring the Government to a virtual standstill. If Reagan does veto the resolution, it seems inconceivable that more than a few days would elapse before Congress passed some kind of money bill that the President would sign, however reluctantly. Whatever happens, the great tax-and-spending battle will be renewed in January. -By George J. Church. Reported by David Beckwith and Neil MacNeil/Washington
With one more vote in the Senate, the bottle bill can triumph: even if it fails, legislators can propose it again in 1983, when Massachusetts will probably have a new governor. King, however, may not get a second chance. His veto, a desperate scramble for votes, backfired. He probably made enemies of his own children--if he has any-and all those whose red wagons lie rusting. And he committed what may prove his biggest--and last--political blunder...
...views, which conflicted sharply. The Senators urged Reagan to go along with Stockman and hold down budget deficits by supporting heavy tax increases in 1983 and 1984. The G.O.P. House leaders, on the other hand, advised the President to keep the pressure on for large cuts in spending, veto appropriations bills that would break his budget, and hold the line against tax increases...