Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to check the intrusiveness of Government, the Administration has occasionally stretched the limits of prudence and propriety. Reagan has slashed the budgets of regulatory and enforcement agencies, placed officials unsympathetic to vigorous enforcement in charge of the agencies, and given his Office of Management and Budget a virtual veto power over rules proposed by the Government's departments and agencies. These moves have eased the pressure on industry to conform to regulations that the Administration has been unwilling or unable to change through legislation or Executive action...
...false report of an earlier J.F.K. marriage, when the President agreed to let Bradlee secretly examine for 24 hours all the FBI files in the case. But in return Newsweek had to give Kennedy final approval of the story that ran. To grant any news source such a veto over a story is bad policy, Bradlee would later acknowledge. It becomes a conspiracy against the public interest...
...often does so with boldness. This term the court ruled forcefully in an unusually large number of major cases, most notably by striking down Congress's asserted right to exercise a legislative veto of Executive Branch actions. Conservatives enthusiastically applauded rulings that strengthened the search-and-seizure powers of law-enforcement officials and that permitted parents in Minnesota to take tax deductions for the costs of educating their children in religious schools. Liberals were equally pleased by reaffirmations of the 1973 freedom-of-choice abortion decision and the denial of tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial...
...with draw University support for minority and women's activities during Freshman Week But while the immediate issue sparking the outburst was the events it soon became clear that broader issues lay under the surface. The demonstrations led to more general complaints about University policy such as the veto of the Third World Center, and insufficient minority professors and administrators which add up to a feeling on the part of some minority students that Harvard simply does not care about them...
...went into effect last Friday, never really expected their amendment to become law. Passed two weeks ago by House Democrats to dramatize their claim that the President's tax policies favor the rich and penalize the poor, the measure faced a Republican-controlled Senate and ultimately a presidential veto that Congress lacks votes to override. Last week, as expected, the Senate delivered the legislative coup de grâce to the cap by a 55 to 45 vote mostly along party lines. Observed Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, the Senate Finance Committee chairman: "This [vote] is probably...