Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Falwell protests that he would have no veto power over Reagan's Supreme Court appointees (indeed Reagan chose Sandra Day O'Connor over Falwell's objections) and adds that he has favored legalized abortions when rape or incest is involved or to protect the life of the mother. Mondale's attacks, Falwell insists, actually help Moral Majority, boosting membership and fund raising. Says Falwell: "If there was some way I could pay Mr. Mondale to mention us more often, I would ... I only hope that he keeps...
...defense plan by banning the testing of antisatellite weapons in space. The Senate, however, insisted on funding both programs. In addition, the House wanted to spend some $100 million next year on 39 water projects, many in the West. Reagan let it be known that he was prepared to veto any funding bill that included major water projects and denounce the Democrats as big spenders...
...debate "represents the most extraordinary opportunity of Mondale's career thus far for people to take a sustained measure of him as a person." White House aides said that for the first time in the campaign, the mood in the White House was tense. Given the right to veto reporters suggested by the League of Women Voters as panel questioners, the two sides rejected almost 100 before settling on Diane Sawyer of CBS, James Wieghart of Scripps-Howard News Service and Fred Barnes of the Baltimore...
...agree by then on the provisions of a catch-all $460 billion "continuing resolution" to fund the Government for a whole year. So Congress gave itself another extension until Tuesday of this week, when the legislators will have to return to deal with the measure. Barring a presidential veto, which would force still another session, the 98th Congress will then pass into history, leaving a two-year record that might charitably be called undistinguished...
...contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, while the Senate insisted on continuing to fund the contras. Also the House voted to authorize pork-barrel water projects that eventually might cost $18 billion; the Senate, sensitive to a threat of presidential veto, refused...