Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocktail party in Hell, One hundred reporters and one Radcliffe extern had been waiting for half-an-hour in the end of a corridor intersecting President Reagan's route to the old Senate chamber. There, he planned to lobby 13 recalcitrant Republicans who had voted to override his veto of the $87.9 billion highway bill. We hoped he would conclude his mission before lunchtime...
Boston's $3.1 billion share of the Federal Highway bill that survived a Presidential veto last week received plaudits from Massachusetts politicans of all parties yesterday...
...successful in the next phase of American politics, candidates and parties must come up with specific, tough-minded solutions to well-perceived problems. It will take great sifting and discipline. The recent congressional override of Reagan's veto of the clean-water bill suggested hearts in the right place (the public considers clean water a necessity, not a luxury, and is willing to sacrifice for it) but minds not yet tough enough to resist temptation (the bill was a nice display of logrolling...
There is an outside chance that drivers may have to dawdle along at 55 despite Congress's green light for the 10-m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...
...House vote was largely symbolic. Democratic leaders concede that even if the Senate goes along with the plan, there are not enough votes in either chamber to override the inevitable presidential veto. But the vote signals that Congress is in no mood to approve an additional $105 million in aid, which the Administration is planning to request in the fall. Says House Speaker Jim Wright: "This exercise is very useful in awakening the Administration to the reality that it has to begin to focus on other ways to serve our interests in Central America...