Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others will seek to discover the effect of the President's veto of the bill on his political chances, and question of how various influences played on Congressmen voting for the bill. A fifth inquiry will ask for an estimate of the veto procedure as illustrated by the Congressional-Executive battle over...
...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
Cheers & Boos. For two days Congress waited for the President's decision on the labor bill. The day the message came, House & Senate galleries were packed, mostly with union sympathizers. In the House they cheered the veto message when it was read. Some Congressmen looked up and yelled "Boo" at the galleries. The vote in the House was quick and overwhelming: 331 to override (225 Republicans and 106 Democrats); 83 to sustain (11 Republicans, 71 Democrats and New York City's man of the Labor Party, Vito Marcantonio...
...except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
Less Competition? Nevertheless, the bill was passed, 60 to 27, and went to the House. It is sure of passage there (a similar bill passed last year) and probably has sufficient backing to override the expected presidential veto...