Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next night Reagan used a prime-time press conference to assail Congress again. "It is time to draw the Line," he declared. "I will not support a budget resolution that raises taxes while we are coming out of a recession. I will veto spending bills that would rekindle the fires of inflation and high interest rates...
...White House, the acrimonious struggle in the Senate to pass a budget resolution had become virtually irrelevant. Declared a presidential aide: "We've pretty well made up our minds on a budget strategy, no matter what the Senate does." The plan, he went on, is for Reagan to veto any tax or nonmilitary spending increase that he considers too high, even if it leads to a stalemate with Congress...
...evening wore on, Domenici modified his proposal only enough to let it qualify technically as a new one. If there was no agreement, he warned, "we will get veto after veto." The fault finding should stop, he argued, and the budget process should be saved. But Democrat Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, who rarely gets angry, railed at the Republican deficits. "If this deficit had been presented by Jimmy Carter," he shouted, "there would have been a serious outcry for his impeachment." Finally, the Domenici proposal was defeated again...
Afterward Reagan repeated his vow to veto the kind of tax increases, higher domestic-program funding and lower military-spending levels included in the Gorton compromise. At a White House staff meeting the next morning, the mood was somber, despite the attitude of detachment toward the Senate budget decisions. It was dawning on everyone that Reagan's inability to wring an acceptable budget out of the Republican Senate was a sign of political weakness, not something to brag about on the hustings. It was becoming clear too that running against Congress is tricky when one house belongs...
...nation, moreover, Government by veto loomed as a tedious and unpredictable process. At a time when the public is looking for statesmanship and solutions, its elected officials had set a course that bodes more bickering and deadlock. - By Ed Magnuson...