Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to make education truly equitable, we will have to make some people angry. First, we have to take away the veto power of teachers' unions over educational reforms. We need to make teaching the domain of those who have demonstrated competence and ability to teach, not those who possess a meaningless teaching credential...
...Bush's cherished reduction in the capital-gains tax, Senate Republicans considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
Mitchell and House Speaker Tom Foley have vowed to pass a "clean" budget bill, unadorned by amendments, before Congress adjourns around Thanksgiving. A veto would leave the automatic cuts in force at least until next year, indiscriminately slicing muscle as well as fat from most Government programs...
...House Republicans suggested that Bush take Kirkland's proposals seriously. Fighting the hike had become embarrassing for Republican lawmakers since they had energetically backed a cut in the capital gains tax that would mainly benefit wealthy investors. They warned that another veto might be overridden. "We don't need to be known as the party that squeezed the last penny out of the minimum wage," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. After the Administration signaled its agreement, the measure passed the House by a vote of 382 to 37. Quick approval is expected in the Senate, and the President could...
...first six months of 1989, largely because of slumping U.S. sales. Jaguar tried to fend off Ford's advances by offering General Motors a 30% stake in the British firm. But last week the British government opened the way for Ford by waiving London's legislative right to veto any takeover of Jaguar before 1991. Ford put its offer on the table the next morning. GM officials decided the price was too high and withdrew...