Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operation. With the House's approval last week of a law banning the use of federal funds for abortions, the so-called Hyde Amendment is almost certain to win Congressional passage, as it has every year for the past seven. Certainly, Ronald Reagan is not likely to veto the measure...
...amendment's passage rarely draws much comment; papers carried only slight, if any, notice of the House veto. But the provision's familiarity should not obscure its fundamental unfairness. The amendment was unjust when initially introduced by Rep. Henry Hyde (D.-III) in 1976, and it remains so today...
...that it will have to pass a "continuing resolution" to fund major portions of the Government in the new fiscal year. Almost certainly, such a stopgap measure would provide for spending higher than Reagan wants. That, in turn, would set the stage for a dismal charade: first a presidential veto, threatening theoretically to put the Government out of business, then anguished negotiations, and finally a compromise maintaining spending at levels a bit higher than currently scheduled. What makes these prospects especially depressing is that there is strong bipartisan agreement on what should be done: a deal wherein the White House...
Grave constitutional questions are sometimes posed by less than nation-shaking issues. Case in point: the first test of the scope of the Supreme Court's June ruling against the so-called legislative veto (Immigration and Naturalization I Service vs. Chad ha) is being raised by an anemic auction | of coal leases...
...argued that disputes over the facts of the incident made it impossible to single out the Soviets for blame. Applying strong pressure, U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick was able to win the reluctant support of Jordan and Malta, thus corralling enough votes to force the Soviet Union to use its veto...