Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger left Washington with a rather Hooverish reputation: he regularly bewailed boosts in Government social spending, unsuccessfully urged Nixon to veto a bill increasing federal aid to the blind and disabled, and counseled spending reductions in all manner of programs, from school aid to medical research...
...four hours at a stretch, in his small private study off the Oval Office, listening to classical music and mulling over Government reports-and his future. He is making few domestic policy decisions in these waning days of his Administration, although last week he did announce plans to veto a $9.1 billion appropriations bill because the measure included a controversial provision, with troubling civil rights implications, that would bar the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing to desegregate schools. When enough House members sided with Carter to sustain his threatened veto, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and other...
...Helms gambit, for instance--an amendment tacked onto a funding measure for the Departments of Justice and State--received approval in both Houses, but fell to a presidential veto. When President Carter vowed to reject the anti-busing provision if it reappeared on his desk, Helms and his allies decided to step aside. Carter won an empty, and probably his last, triumph in his four-year struggle with Congress...
...week by both parties in the lameduck Congress. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd wanted Congress to complete action on a $39 billion package of tax cuts that was pending. So did Republican Dole, who will soon chair the Finance Committee, and Reagan signaled his approval. But Carter threatened to veto any such bill. That effectively killed the legislation and left Reagan free to start anew with his own tax cut ideas in January...
Passage of the measure puts Carter in a quandary: he will either have to veto a money bill that is badly needed or accept the rider that turns back the clock on civil rights. At week's end there was no indication of what he would decide...