Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Chairman Barry Goldwater, has approved a measure designed to provide Congress with a mechanism to end funding for all covert operations against Nicaragua. A compromise with the Reagan Administration is not out of the question. But some kind of direct congressional veto over the Administration's covert actions seems closer to reality than ever...
...deficit fighters. "It is time that the burden of Reaganomics is shared by those in the upper-income groups," O'Neill declared. "This has been a program of the rich, by the rich and for the rich." Retorted Reagan: "I'll give him my autograph on the veto bill...
...odds," said Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., "are no better than fifty-fifty." Both the $863.6 billion House version and the $849.7 billion Senate version contain more tax increases and domestic spending, and less defense, than Reagan requested in his Jan. 31 budget message. Reagan cannot veto a budget resolution. But he can veto individual appropriations measures, and he promises to do so if they substantially exceed his own spending guidelines...
...limit is attached to an appropriations bill that has already been threatened with a Reagan veto because it exceeds his budget limits. And when it comes up for finishing touches in the Senate this week, some members could yet add a straightforward pay raise, possibly reopening the whole compensation issue...
Ride has earned her colleagues' trust and high regard. Says Crippen, who as skipper had veto power over all the crew choices: "You like people who stay calm under duress. And Sally can do that. She hit all the squares." Her sister, who has become a Presbyterian minister, calls her a tough, no-nonsense competitor: "Sally will wipe you out every time." Adds Molly Tyson, an old Stanford roommate: "I've never seen Sally trip, on or off the court, physically or intellectually...