Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A Reagan Administration official sent an unmistakable signal to Congress yesterday that the president intends to veto an $87.4-billion House appropriations bill, and Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill conceded Republicans have the votes to make the veto stick...
Referring to the president's threat last week to veto any "budget-busting" legislation, White House spokesman Larry Speakers said in a White House news conference, "This appears to be the kind of bill--which would provide funding for the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services--is $4 billion over the limits Congress set earlier this year...
...Scaling down its previous demands for worker autonomy, the union proposed to draw up, with the government, a list of strategic enterprises whose managers would be appointed by the state; managers of all other enterprises would be appointed by workers' councils. Each side would have a right to veto the other's appointments, with the courts acting as final arbiter. At week's end parliament passed a self-management bill almost identical to the Solidarity proposal, which was still subject to approval at the Gdansk convention...
...interest rates were beginning to soften. And there would be more budget cuts. He looked around the table during one meeting, and for a second the warm mood faded. "Let's get one thing straight," he told his congressional visitors. "If budget-busting bills come down, I will veto them." After gathering his Cabinet officers for some exhortation and prayer, the President ordered them to stand fast. His benediction: "We knew it would never be easy...
...products. Congress saved the agency from dissolution in the Reagan budget, but reduced its allocation by nearly 30% and decreed that new standards be issued only if the agency finds that voluntary industry codes or warning labels are wanting. Even then, Congress reserved for itself the power to veto any proposed regulation. The crippled commission's new head, Nancy Steorts, has called for an improved Government-business relationship. Says she: "Cooperation with industry will replace the adversary relationship of the past." Karen Burstein, chairman of the New York State consumer protection board, says that the government is retreating from...