Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the HDC have received polls with the names of six nominees, two of whom will be chosen by the executive committee to fill the places of graduating members. According to the constitution, fifty per cent of the membership must veto a nominee before his name is withdrawn...
...delegates from the six Common Market nations haggled in Luxembourg over the proposals laid down by France as its terms for re-entry into EEC talks. Finally, the Six approved a compromise plan that formalized an agreement to disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened...
...when Johnson himself will no longer be a candidate-the presidential party could not suffer its traditional off-year losses in the House. By strengthening the presidential coattails, the amendment, in Celler's words, would make the House "subservient to the presidential will." Since the President has no veto power over constitutional amendments, Congress can submit to the states any draft it chooses. An alternative to the Johnson proposal would provide for staggered elections, with half the House members running every two years. But even this would increase the President's influence on the House by assuring four...
...related European Atomic Energy and Goal and Steel Community commissions in a new 14-member body by April 1-and Hallstein was not one of the 14 the French had in mind. Couve told the ministers that they had until Feb. 1 to agree to let France retain its veto over their joint decisions, even though, under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, a qualified majority vote went into effect...
Presidential objections will be "well known and documented" under the new procedure, according to Maass and Cooper. But beyond that, the President can later "veto the appropriations bill if he is displeased with Congress's changes, or he can impound funds for a project that he considers undesirable...