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After Congress passes a bill, the President has ten working days to veto it, says the Constitution. He can do so in two ways: 1) he can return the measure to Congress unsigned; or 2) if Congress has adjourned, he can do nothing, exercising the pocket veto. Unlike the normal veto, the pocket veto cannot be overridden by a two-thirds vote. President Reagan tried one last November. The measure in question was a bill declaring that there should be no military aid to El Salvador unless the President could report improvements in that nation's human rights record...
...taxes, giving credibility to Mondale's charge that the Administration has a secret plan to impose them. Last week the President was considerably less equivocal. "I will propose no increase in personal income taxes," he said in a radio talk recorded at his California ranch, "and I will veto any tax bill that would raise personal tax rates for working Americans." Reagan was careful to limit his vow to personal income taxes: some kind of federal sales tax is favored by many of his advisers. He also claimed that Mondale's budget proposals would entail an average...
...matter, the Republicans argue. If Reagan had not suggested the adjustment for next year, Democrats would have led a move in Congress to pass such a bill this fall. The President would then have faced the choice of seeming to follow the Democrats' lead or casting a veto that would anger older voters shortly before the November election. "It was going to happen anyway," insists Republican Senator Robert Dole. "Now, politically, the President comes out ahead." Still, contends a House Republican leader, "it was a dumb move. He shouldn't have done it." It sends the wrong signal...
...would actually produce a no-deficit budget next year (Reagan's own proposals project a $180.4 billion deficit for 1985), except by instilling a somewhat mystical "discipline." Nor did Reagan clear the air much at week's end when he told his radio audience that he would veto any bill aimed at raising personal tax rates...
...good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well as U.S. bans on most-favored-nation trading status and the denial of credits for food and other much needed commodities. Even some Administration officials feel that such sanctions have outlived their usefulness. Said one: "There is the feeling that Poland...