Word: vetoes
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ACLU/CLUM has also adopted a clear policy against "the heckler's veto." While heckling or mild interruption of a speaker is a form of expression entitled to First Amendment protection, even if offensive or obnoxious, nevertheless, in an extreme form "conduct that effectively prevents the speaker from speaking or the audience from hearing cannot be classified as protected speech." It is the equivalent of "acts of physical force" excercized against the speaker. "The speaker is as entitled to protection from this form of interference as from any other physical obstruction...
Following the arrival ceremonies, the two leaders got down to serious talks. As they posed in the Oval Office for photographers, Reagan explained the Gephardt vote, saying, "We're now very much heartened by the narrow margin of victory," because it meant he would be able to sustain a veto. Yet the House later passed the final trade bill containing the Gephardt amendment by a decisive 290 to 137, just one vote shy of the amount needed to override a veto...
...refused to say whether he would veto the measure, if it wins final congressional approval, or whether he would impose additional sanctions against Japan if it failed to take actions sought by the United States. Nakasone, asked if he was troubled by the House provision, declined comment...
...just another federal spending program. Few activities of government affect so many Americans daily, inspire such passion and profanity as those vast expanses of pavement stretching from horizon to horizon. That is why some White House aides believe Ronald Reagan was always doomed to lose last week's veto battle with the Senate. Was it the wrong war over the wrong issue at the wrong time? Wavering legislators, who once feared crossing the President, will not soon forget the day Reagan went hat in hand to the Senate needing one Republican vote and failed...
Congress deals a blow to a weakened but combative President by overriding Reagan' s veto of the highway bill. -- States vie for the superconducting supercollider accelerator. -- Marine guards often turned the U. S. embassy in Moscow into an "Animal House." -- Former Quarterback Jack Kemp' s game plan for '88 presidential race...