Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemingly uncertain White House faces an unusual confluence of difficult tasks: preparing for the summit with the Soviets in Geneva, negotiating with Congress on a policy toward South Africa, reviving the dormant campaign for tax reform, and keeping even the modest deficit- reduction program from dissolving into a veto-ridden stalemate. Reagan's staff is aware that the success of his second term may be at stake. "It will be a crucial three or four months; we all know that," concedes a White House aide. "It's going to depend heavily on the President...
...price for this series of distractions will be paid on Capitol Hill, where the unresolved legislative agenda is a minefield of potential trouble. Reagan has threatened to veto appropriations bills emerging from Congress that exceed the spending limitations agreed upon in the anemic deficit- reduction package passed by Congress in early August. As many as 13 spending bills, including costly farmsubsidy legislation, could reach Reagan's desk. If the legislators were to override his veto on any of them, it would be the first such defeat of his presidency, further eroding his influence. Still, he seems ready to take...
...Congressmen say "yes" to the tune of $900-some billion, and now we need someone to say "no." Senators should follow the lead of Edward M. Kennedy '54. They should outvote their temporarily victorious filibustering colleagues and allow a presidential line-item veto...
...PRESIDENT, representing national rather than regional interests, can sayno, Unfortunately, the executive now has little ability to control the necessary but ever-increasing battles over funding, except by total veto, a time-consuming and useless measure that avoids the core of the problem...
...majority of the nation's governors, and municipal leaders here and all over the world, exercise the right to veto budgets line by line. But this is no available for the leader of the single largest economic entity in the world. The line-item veto has not given other leaders powers disproportionate to their position, but has contributed to maintaining sound economic principles at the state and city levels. If this country calls for a balanced budget and deficit reduction to bolster the economy and maintain should fiscal policy, the line-item veto would be the only way to enforce...