Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense and Foreign Policy. Any Pentagon contract worth more than $25 million could be vetoed by either house. Any arms sale could be stopped by concurrent House and Senate votes; it was just such a legislative veto that nearly prevented the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia...
Virtually every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan has conspired, if a bit reluctantly, to validate the legislative veto. From its first use, in a Government reorganization bill signed 51 years ago this week, it has been a bargaining chip: in exchange for a small concession of power, a President gets the legislation he wants...
...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...
...Republican support in the Senate. Among the 19 Republicans voting for it: Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico. Meant as an incentive to congressional selfdiscipline, the resolution does not go to the White House for approval or veto. The stage is thus set for a bitter, lengthy clash between Capitol Hill and the White House over specific tax and spending bills...
...move that would raise $6 billion. It was passed by Democrats to dramatize their claim that Reagan's tax policies favor the rich and penalize the poor. No matter, the cap has little chance to pass the Senate, and even if it did, it would be vetoed by Reagan, a veto that Congress lacks the votes to override. The vain effort will provide the Democrats with a measure of campaign fodder...