Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, feelings are still ruffled by the incident. Said Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas: "A lot of people are in prison in this country for doing a lot less than Toshiba did." The House is weighing measures similar to those passed by the Senate. If the President vetoes the trade bill and thus the sanctions, the penalties could still be introduced as separate legislation. In that circumstance, Congress is expected to have enough votes to override a veto...
Griffin Bell, Attorney General for Carter, once trudged to the Hill to try to talk House Speaker Thomas O'Neill into discouraging the mushrooming use of the legislative veto. Bell considered this proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O'Neill seemed more eager to fight than be right. "They almost wanted to be co-President," Bell recalled the other day. "If a President is faithful to his oath, he must resist...
...question, however, is whether such fairness ought to be mandated by the Government or whether that violates a broadcaster's First Amendment rights. In early June the House and Senate, by wide margins, passed a measure that would codify the fairness doctrine into statute law. But the bill was vetoed by President Reagan, who called the doctrine "antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment." Efforts to override the veto were abandoned last week, and the deregulation-minded FCC may soon be free to repeal the rule...
Unless Congress circumvents Reagan's veto (possibly by attaching the fairness-doctrine measure to another piece of legislation), the issue will once again rest with the FCC, which has been steadily eliminating or easing many Government restrictions on broadcasters. Among them: limitations on the number of stations one company can own and minimum requirements on news and public-affairs programming. Dennis Patrick, the new FCC chairman, vows to continue the trend. "The electronic media," he says, "should enjoy the same First Amendment freedom as the print media." If his view prevails, fairness may no longer be a Government call; like...
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have indicated their approval for the President's hard line by presenting him with a "veto pencil" more than a foot long. Thus far neither party seems ready to make the tough decisions necessary to pay for the programs it wants; each seems to be trying to maneuver the other further out on a limb. Looking toward the inevitable confrontation between the White House and the Democrats, Hollings predicts, "It's gonna be one big high noon...