Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter, the Republicans argue. If Reagan had not suggested the adjustment for next year, Democrats would have led a move in Congress to pass such a bill this fall. The President would then have faced the choice of seeming to follow the Democrats' lead or casting a veto that would anger older voters shortly before the November election. "It was going to happen anyway," insists Republican Senator Robert Dole. "Now, politically, the President comes out ahead." Still, contends a House Republican leader, "it was a dumb move. He shouldn't have done it." It sends the wrong signal...
...good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well as U.S. bans on most-favored-nation trading status and the denial of credits for food and other much needed commodities. Even some Administration officials feel that such sanctions have outlived their usefulness. Said one: "There is the feeling that Poland...
...will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Mondale also vowed to cut federal spending, telling Congress, in words that sounded odd from a Democratic rostrum: "If you don't hold the line, I will. That's what the veto...
...first term," he vowed, "I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two-thirds." Mondale said he would use his veto power to check needless spending if Congress did not. "To the corporations and the freeloaders who play the loopholes and pay no taxes," said he, "my message is: your free ride is over...
...about 50% of gross national product. He argued that reducing expenditures for local government, public health and social security is an urgent political necessity. He also believes that an incomes policy to hold down wages is vital but that the government appears to have given the powerful unions a veto in major economic decisions. Said he: "I think that creates a major problem for the functioning of a parliamentary democracy...