Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill moved through Congress, formal protests from foreign countries flooded into Washington, eventually adding up to 200 pages. Both houses voted aye nonetheless. While the legislation sat on the President's desk, 1,028 American economists called for a veto. Herbert Hoover made it the law of the land anyway, swallowing his own reservations and, on June 17, signing the Tariff...
Hoover was hemmed in by tradition and the G.O.P. platform. Henry Ford spent an evening at the White House pleading for a veto of what he called "an economic stupidity." Other automobile executives backed Ford. But no President had ever vetoed a tariff measure, and Hoover was not about to be the first. "With returning normal conditions, our foreign trade will continue to expand," he said hopefully...
Though the protectionist push has begun to worry increasing numbers of Congressmen, it has by no means petered out. So many Senators and Representatives have committed themselves to the textile bill that it is nearly certain to pass, though probably not by margins large enough to override a Reagan veto. But second thoughts are cropping up, spurred by several considerations...
Substantial deficit reduction did not occur this term in Congress. Thus, some argue, we need the line-item veto. Yet while we must reduce the deficit, undermining the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances is not the way. Vesting both executive and legislative power in one person, the President, is asking for abuse. Congress must not sell itself to the President...
...question is less whether the bill will pass than whether it will do so by votes large enough to override an expected Reagan veto, and what sort of amendments may be attached. A number of the cosponsors have signed on less out of any consuming desire to save the U.S. textile industry than out of a desire to turn the bill into a vehicle for amendments that would restrict imports of shoes and all manner of other products. But should they fail in that effort or be frustrated by a Reagan veto that sticks, the anti-import forces will...