Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Henry Wallace discovered that the Senate Appropriations Committee was about to scuttle BEW by 1) cutting out its funds for traveling expenses, 2) giving Jesse Jones veto power over its foreign purchases...
Last week, a full day before the next message went up, Jimmy Byrnes phoned rangy John McCormack, Majority Leader, told him to get set for a veto of the Commodity Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told...
...point Congressmen laughed-at the President's crack that discussing all the difficulties in the bill would make his message as confused as the bill itself. At 4:22 p.m. Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen completed the count: 228 to override the veto (every Republican vote except four), 154 to sustain...
...veto extinguished the authority and the money for the 90%-of-parity support under farm prices, yet Franklin Roosevelt still retained the authority of the price control bill to use any money he can dig up for food subsidies. Hurriedly, the House farm bloc got up a simple resolution merely extending CCC. The Senate, not in such a hurry, began again to tack on anti-subsidy amendments. And many a Congressman, convinced that subsidies would not work, smiled-and waited...
...proposed a law making all men up to 65 eligible for the draft, so that strikers could be put into uniform. This suggestion shocked the press, from liberal to labor-hating. Congress took a hand: by passing the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill over the President's veto, Congress in effect voted no-confidence in Franklin Roosevelt's unsure handling of the coal problem...