Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill is not pure pork. Nearly $2.5 billion goes for Atomic Energy Commission construction and operations, another $294 million to control water pollution. There's the rub. Because the bill goes to the White House as a single package, the President, lacking an item veto, must reject the entire bill or accept it all. And no Congressman doubts that Lyndon Johnson will have to forget his deficit, gulp hard and swallow the bill whole-including such frills as the Delaware River-Tocks Island reservoir and recreational program at the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania border, which was originally supposed...
...socialistic giveaway." They argue that it is wrong to tax one person to pay another's rent. Also the program will undoubtedly foster racial and economic integration and this implication has contributed greatly to the opposition; it is probably why the 1966 act included a rider granting local officials veto power over supplement projects...
Psychological Advantage. Yet there have been some victories. When Rockefeller cracked down on illegal gambling in Hot Springs, the lawmakers responded with a bill to legalize casino operations. Rockefeller vetoed the measure and made the veto stick despite a threat to override it.* He won a much needed increase in teachers' salaries, a raise in welfare payments, creation of a department of administration to modernize operations of the state's 187 agencies, and establishment of a commission to study constitutional revision...
...convention opened, the G.O.P. national leadership-hand politely extended-asked for just a little more consideration. After all, the party subsidizes the Y.R. treasury to the tune of around $90,000 a year. Could it not at least have veto power over the choice of the Y.R. executive director whose salary it pays? Any slim hope that the convention might comply was summarily dashed when Barry Goldwater advised against giving in: "Don't let them...
...military confrontation.' " Rather than working for peace, Russia "has for 14 years afflicted the Middle East with a headlong armaments race." Eban read off the deadly catalogue of Russian arms that had been delivered to the Arabs; he reminded Kosygin that five times Russia had used its veto to prevent the Security Council from condemning Arab aggression...