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...refused to say whether he would veto the measure, if it wins final congressional approval, or whether he would impose additional sanctions against Japan if it failed to take actions sought by the United States. Nakasone, asked if he was troubled by the House provision, declined comment...
...success could be as low as 1 in 100. Instead, with the firm declaration "I want to do it," Reagan traveled the extra mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol to plead personally with Senate Republicans for the single vote he needed to sustain his veto...
...larger issue underlying the veto fight was serious: Should Congress have the right to mandate the construction and repair of individual roads and bridges? Almost all the money in the $88 billion, five-year authorization bill is passed on to the states according to complex allocation formulas. But legislators know that it is hard to take credit for such indirect funding in a 30-second campaign spot. So in 1982 Congress decided to build a few roads and add a few expressway exits on their own. Thus was born the demonstration project, a legislative fiction that claimed these congressional highways...
...just another federal spending program. Few activities of government affect so many Americans daily, inspire such passion and profanity as those vast expanses of pavement stretching from horizon to horizon. That is why some White House aides believe Ronald Reagan was always doomed to lose last week's veto battle with the Senate. Was it the wrong war over the wrong issue at the wrong time? Wavering legislators, who once feared crossing the President, will not soon forget the day Reagan went hat in hand to the Senate needing one Republican vote and failed...
Congress deals a blow to a weakened but combative President by overriding Reagan' s veto of the highway bill. -- States vie for the superconducting supercollider accelerator. -- Marine guards often turned the U. S. embassy in Moscow into an "Animal House." -- Former Quarterback Jack Kemp' s game plan for '88 presidential race...