Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this year, the President vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which bars institutions which receive federal assistance from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, age, or physical handicap. Fortunately, on March 22, Congress soundly overturned the Reagan veto...
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas predicted, however, that not only would the veto be sustained in the Senate, but a cleaner version will become...
Wright, speaking with reporters before Reagan acted, said that if Democrats can't override Reagan's veto, they would push "the strongest, most effective trade bill that you can, but that will take time...
Democratic presidential front-runner Michael Dukakis wasted no time seizing it. He called the veto "unconscionable...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) acknowledged that the Senate would not override the president when it considers the veto early next month, but he scoffed at Reagan's request for speedy consideration of a stripped-down version of the bill...