Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEFORE HRE can proceed with the construction of the hotel, the plan must still receive the rubber stamp of the Harvard Corporation. We believe the corporation should veto the hotel proposal, but we don't realistically expect it to rectify Spence's mistake...
Expectably, the White House is delighted with Democratic frustrations. Political operatives believe Bush has stolen the opposition's best issues: the environment, education, child care, the minimum wage (where Bush's veto of a Democratic bill will force a compromise to the President's liking). "We have co-opted them in areas that have traditionally been their strength. They don't know what to do," gloats a senior Administration official...
House leaders wanted to charge the $50 billion first-year cost of the program to the federal budget. President Bush had threatened to veto the legislation unless Congress agreed to keep most of the outlay off budget, a plan that Nebraska Senator James Exon called a "continuing grand scheme to fool the American taxpayer ((about)) the real cost of the bailout." Near midnight on Friday, Congress approved a compromise worked out with the White House in which only $20 billion of the program's costs will be charged to the budget. The Government will issue special 30-year bonds...
When Dukakis tried to bring the budget into balance by slashing state aid to cities and towns, the state Legislature over-rode his veto of the aid. The House of Representatives did it unanimously. That has to hurt...
Among Dukakis' few supporters in the Legislature is Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). Barrett could not be reached for comment yesterday, but according to aide David Osborne the Cambridge senator supported the governor's veto because he believes the state doesn't have the money to fund the local aid package...