Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, 39 Republicans ended up voting against sending the bill back to committee for paring. The White House threatened to veto the bill, and House Republican leaders say they have the votes to make the rebuff stick...
...unexplained but highly-official diplomatic shuttles between Pretoria and Washington, along with voices of outcry from Black African capitals, added to the sense of confusion. More recently, a Reagan Administration's effort to back South Africa officially in certain areas has become clear, most prominently its pledge to veto any resolution in the U.N. security council explicitly condemning Pretoria for its invasion of Angolan soil. In addition, several minor but concrete concessions have been made by the U.S. to the South Africans, most notably a plan to increase the number of military attaches in each country...
...little fun before Reagan returned last month. Individual appropriations totals began creeping above original Administration levels, threatening the reconciliation goals. Just last week, Republicans joined Democrats in the House to pass an $87.3 billion social spending bill, which the White House immediately labeled "budget busting" and targeted for a veto...
From time to time, there were doubts about where the program was heading. In 1975, President Gerald Ford, struggling to hold down the federal deficit, vetoed a bill that would have made even more children eligible for 20? lunches. In the Senate debate that followed, Maryland Republican Charles McC. Mathias wondered whether "we are not witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links the child to the home." Brown-bag lunches might not meet federal nutrition standards, he observed...
...Neill conceded there was "no question" the White House would sustain the 145 votes necessary to carry the veto. Earlier in the year, 155 Republican Congressmen sent a letter to the president pledging to support any veto, and the key vote on yesterday's bill...