Word: vetoes
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...debate "represents the most extraordinary opportunity of Mondale's career thus far for people to take a sustained measure of him as a person." White House aides said that for the first time in the campaign, the mood in the White House was tense. Given the right to veto reporters suggested by the League of Women Voters as panel questioners, the two sides rejected almost 100 before settling on Diane Sawyer of CBS, James Wieghart of Scripps-Howard News Service and Fred Barnes of the Baltimore...
...agree by then on the provisions of a catch-all $460 billion "continuing resolution" to fund the Government for a whole year. So Congress gave itself another extension until Tuesday of this week, when the legislators will have to return to deal with the measure. Barring a presidential veto, which would force still another session, the 98th Congress will then pass into history, leaving a two-year record that might charitably be called undistinguished...
...contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, while the Senate insisted on continuing to fund the contras. Also the House voted to authorize pork-barrel water projects that eventually might cost $18 billion; the Senate, sensitive to a threat of presidential veto, refused...
...Lebanon, Rashid Karami, denounced the embassy bombing as "inexcusable and intolerable," adding, "We congratulate the survivors, and implore God's mercy for the victims." Otherwise, the reaction in the Arab world was somewhat muted, perhaps because many Arab moderates, including the Lebanese, were angry over the U.S. veto in early September of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for improved living conditions in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. Indeed, many Middle East experts speculated that the latest bombing was intended as retaliation for the veto...
...last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia disallowed Reagan's pocket veto after hearing a suit brought by 33 House Democrats. Their argument: Congress had not adjourned, but was merely off on a break between sessions, and had designated the House clerk and the Senate secretary to receive any presidential missives. Unless the White House successfully appeals to the Supreme Court, the decision makes illegal, technically, the $64 million dispensed to El Salvador in military aid since Nov. 30 of last year...