Word: vetoes
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...Lebanon, Rashid Karami, denounced the embassy bombing as "inexcusable and intolerable," adding, "We congratulate the survivors, and implore God's mercy for the victims." Otherwise, the reaction in the Arab world was somewhat muted, perhaps because many Arab moderates, including the Lebanese, were angry over the U.S. veto in early September of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for improved living conditions in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. Indeed, many Middle East experts speculated that the latest bombing was intended as retaliation for the veto...
After Congress passes a bill, the President has ten working days to veto it, says the Constitution. He can do so in two ways: 1) he can return the measure to Congress unsigned; or 2) if Congress has adjourned, he can do nothing, exercising the pocket veto. Unlike the normal veto, the pocket veto cannot be overridden by a two-thirds vote. President Reagan tried one last November. The measure in question was a bill declaring that there should be no military aid to El Salvador unless the President could report improvements in that nation's human rights record...
...last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia disallowed Reagan's pocket veto after hearing a suit brought by 33 House Democrats. Their argument: Congress had not adjourned, but was merely off on a break between sessions, and had designated the House clerk and the Senate secretary to receive any presidential missives. Unless the White House successfully appeals to the Supreme Court, the decision makes illegal, technically, the $64 million dispensed to El Salvador in military aid since Nov. 30 of last year...
...taxes, giving credibility to Mondale's charge that the Administration has a secret plan to impose them. Last week the President was considerably less equivocal. "I will propose no increase in personal income taxes," he said in a radio talk recorded at his California ranch, "and I will veto any tax bill that would raise personal tax rates for working Americans." Reagan was careful to limit his vow to personal income taxes: some kind of federal sales tax is favored by many of his advisers. He also claimed that Mondale's budget proposals would entail an average...
...would actually produce a no-deficit budget next year (Reagan's own proposals project a $180.4 billion deficit for 1985), except by instilling a somewhat mystical "discipline." Nor did Reagan clear the air much at week's end when he told his radio audience that he would veto any bill aimed at raising personal tax rates...