Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attached to the measure. The Democratic House had voted $5.4 billion for the program, and the Republican Senate had approved a $1.2 billion figure. But Reagan, with much justification, argued that both versions were motley collections of local pork-barrel projects masquerading as jobs programs. He threatened to veto the entire continuing resolution, an act that would have shut down much of the Federal government last week, unless the job amendments were scuttled...
...Senate's $1.2 billion program turned out to be a Reagan-pleasing goose egg. Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts put the matter bluntly to Democratic Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi. Said Conte: "Christ, Jamie, why make us go through this? We'll just get a veto and be right back here." At a private conference that evening, the Democrats decided it was futile to provoke a confrontation that would close down the Government...
Both parties hoped that the President would accept a Capitol Hill consensus. Congress met through the weekend to work out a compromise spending plan, but Reagan stuck by his insistence that any major jobs program would provoke a veto. Since funding for federal programs nominally expired Friday at midnight, the Government was technically shut down until Reagan and Congress could reach an agreement...
...amendment to a "continuing resolution" providing funding for most of the Government. The Republican Senate is expected to defeat the bill this week, but the ensuing Senate-House conference may compromise by approving half the money, or $2.5 billion. Reagan, who sternly opposes "make-work" projects, is likely to veto the measure, thus stopping all Government funding and forcing Congress back into session Christmas week either to override his veto or to pass a stopgap spending bill without the public works money...
RAISE A TOAST to Grendel's! The earthy Harvard Square eaterie this week won the right to serve alcohol regardless of opposition from neighborhood clergymen. Pouncing on a failure to separate church from state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Massachusetts law which allows churches to veto liquor licenses for establishments within 500 feet of an altar...