Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups. Opponents point out that he has rarely ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that courts should "renounce outright the whole notion of congressional standing...
...increase would be only half of that permitted by the joint budget resolution Congress approved in May. However the bill, if approved by the Senate, sets spending at a level about $6.6 billion higher than the Administration's budget request and may face veto by President Reagan...
...hero, a superhuman police officer who will replace the weak authorities and give the bad guys a dose of their own medicine. In this sense the movie echoes the populism that elected as president a man who dared Congress to "make my day" by sending him a bill to veto...
...Washington, where the House of Representatives voted to delay by 90 days the Reagan Administration's plan to register eleven Kuwaiti tankers under the U.S. flag and provide them with a naval escort. The measure, however, was largely symbolic, because even if the Senate had followed suit, a presidential veto would probably have ensued. The reflagged tankers are scheduled to begin operating in the Persian Gulf next week...
...address on economic rights was mostly a burnishing of the ideas he has carried throughout his political life. Specifically, he will continue his assault on Big Government, high taxes, regulation. He still wants an amendment to the Constitution mandating a balanced federal budget and a law providing line-item veto power for the President. He would require Congress to muster more than a mere majority to impose tax increases. "Taxation beyond a certain level becomes servitude," Reagan declared. He brandished once again the "truth in spending" scheme that would compel Congress to assign a cost to any new program...