Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, where most of the excitement lies, is the unexpected--the earthquake, the coup, the riot, the crash, the death of some prominent person. The second is the known event heading toward resolution--the forthcoming election, the fate of a bill in the legislature, the possibility of a veto--on which the paper provides progress reports...
...Congress, in effect, to substitute a tax increase for some of his spending cuts. Said the President: "Those who say that our budget is DOA--dead on arrival--are really saying, 'Brace yourself for a tax increase' . . . rest assured that any tax increase sent to me will be V.O.A.--veto on arrival." On a visit to St. Louis the next day, Reagan's motorcade pulled up to a side door of his hotel to bypass 150 angry farmers who oppose his budget priorities. Adding to their pain: some 75,000 letters from the Farmers Home Administration began going out last...
...that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied in a joint resolution brought up for a straight yes-or-no vote within one week. Congress could reject the resolution, or the President could veto it, but they would still be under pressure to cut spending lest they be accused of dereliction of duty by permitting the deficit to go on growing. Said Rudman: "The fallback procedure, I believe, will work--not with the certainty of the original (automatic) provision, but it will work." Said...
...Supreme Court agrees, what then? Congress wrote a fallback provision into the act: spending cuts sufficient to meet the deficit targets would be calculated and voted into effect by a joint resolution of Congress, subject to presidential veto. The big catch: it was precisely the inability of President and Congress to agree on any plan that would dramatically reduce deficits that drove them to support Gramm-Rudman in the first place...
Agriculture Secretary John Block announced that the President would sign the farm bill, despite earlier threats to veto it. Although Congress provided $52 billion in overall subsidies to farmers over the next three years, twice the amount Reagan had originally wanted, the farm bill nevertheless will allow Block gradually to lower guaranteed minimum prices to producers of wheat, corn and other basic commodities. The Administration hopes this feature will force farmers to become more competitive food exporters. Overseas sales of U.S. agricultural products declined from $44 billion in 1981 to $31 billion in 1985, largely because farmers could get more...