Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a major civil rights bill yesterday, ending a four-year battle to restore broad protection for women, minorities, the elderly and the handicapped...
...votes in both chambers exceeded the two-thirds majority needed to enact a law over a presidential veto. It was the ninth time Congress had rejected a Reagan veto...
...presented an alternative civil rights act which stated the president's strong views against discrimination in this country," a White House statement said. "The Congress chose to override the president's veto. We will work to implement...
...House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) said in a statement that Reagan's veto was "wholly unnecessary and it provoked an unnecessary confrontation. The new law will not end illegal discrimination. But it does represent a step forward in making America truly a land of equal opportunity...
...they voted yesterday, many lawmakers, even some who voted to sustain Reagan's veto, denounced a last-minute campaign against the restoration act by the conservative Moral Majority...