Word: vetoes
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Frezza, of Keverian's office, also cited pressing state issues as causes for reconvention--the largest of which was a Republican drive to override Dukakis' veto of a $91 million "local and additional assistance" package for cities and towns from surplus lottery receipts...
...veto is overridden, the $91 million will have to be found elsewhere in the budget, probably from Human Services," said Larry Kraus, an aide to Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge...
...plan devised by Texas Republican Congressman Richard Armey passes the onus to a nonpartisan Pentagon commission, which will draw up a list of unnecessary bases. To stop the closings, the legislators would have to reject the entire list and probably have to override a presidential veto. Possible savings for taxpayers: as much as $5 billion a year...
...Powers Act allows the Congress to recall troops after they have already been committed, an action that many argue is the equivalent of a legislative veto over the executive. The Supreme Court decided in 1981 that many forms of the legislative veto were unconstitutional...
...Nixon vetoed the bill, calling it unconstitutional, but Congress overrode the veto. Every president since--Democrat and Republican--has called the act an unconstitutional limit on the power of the executive. And yet, every president has obeyed the law by keeping Congress, or at least individual members of Congress, informed of the nation's military position...