Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major remaining problem: how to move cleanly but loyally away from Reagan and establish Bush's credentials as a forceful, independent leader. Traveling to such secondary media markets as Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio, last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political Director Rich Bond. "But like...
WITH that promise, the death knell sounded for the trade bill. The Democratic leadership was unable to win the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate to override the forthcoming Presidential veto. But whether or not another trade bill is passed, the veto could turn out to be a hidden blessing for the Democrats...
...Senate votes this week; the only question is whether the trade bill, three years in the making and supported by groups as diverse as organized labor, farmers and the oil industry, will pass by a vote larger than the two-thirds necessary to override the expected veto...
...Administration dangled the prospect of a slimmed down version of the bill, minus the plant-closings and perhaps other provisions, once Congress has sustained Reagan's expected veto of the current measure...
...House passed the bill last Thursday, 312-107, more than the two-thirds margin needed to override a veto...