Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court has also thrown into confusion the pending bills that seek to limit the Administration's "covert" aid to antigovernment guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua. For months Congressmen and White House aides had been crafting compromise legislation that would have consisted of little beyond a legislative veto provision, giving Congress the right to cut off such...
More than a few members of Congress adhered to Justice White's contention that the modern Government is vast and powerful beyond the imaginations of the founding fathers, and so requires a fetter like the legislative veto. If this view prevails, the long-term effect of the court's decision, ironically, might be to encourage Congress to seek even more power than it wielded before, by passing hundreds or thousands of narrow, specific prescriptions on presidential prerogatives. "The court's decision," said G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, "has catapulted Congress into years of complex, cumbersome legislative...
...limit on involvement of U.S. combat troops in an undeclared war, unless Congress grants an extension. Experts not only in the Administration and the Senate but outside Government generally agree that this central feature remains in force. Such a limit, established in advance, seems crucially different from a legislative veto, since it does not need to be triggered by a special congressional vote. The court may have to decide this question next year in the case of Crockett vs. Reagan, a War Powers suit brought by 29 members of Congress; it seeks the withdrawal of several dozen U.S. military advisers...
Regulatory Agencies. All Federal Election Commission regulations have been subject to unilateral veto by either the House or Senate. Any Federal Trade Commission ruling could be disapproved by majority vote of both houses. Last year Congress was persuaded by intense lobbying to veto an FTC regulation that required used-car dealers to tell customers about defects...
...Economy. Either house could veto agricultural-loan regulations. The Federal Reserve needed specific approval to change interest rates favorable to savings and loan institutions. Whole swaths of 1983 funding bills were subject to congressional veto...