Word: vetoing
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After that, by a vote of 45 to 40, the Senate passed a surprise amendment that Murphy tacked on to a poverty-program bill to give governors a veto over individual budget items in OEO Legal Services programs. Previously, a governor could veto the appropriation for an entire program in his state-but the OEO Director could override his veto.* "This is a disastrous piece of legislation," protested Alfred Feinberg, an OEO lawyer who heads an association called PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy). "If ultimately passed by the House, it will destroy OEO Legal Services...
...Murphy amendment" would give state governors the authority to veto granting or renewal of funds to any legal services program funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), subject o override only by the President of the United States. Currently, a governor's veto may be countermanded by the Director...
...right of the President to override a governor's veto was included in the amendment only after Murphy left the floor of the Senate. According to the New York Times, however, "it was stipulated that this authority would be eliminated in a Senate-House conference if Senator Murphy later objected...
...warned that Nixon might veto bills -possibly even the tax-reform bill-that involved excessive spending or loss of revenue. Almost his last words before his appointment to the Federal Reserve were: "We will not budge...
...Issues. Some such row has seemed inevitable since last April, when the university's regents gave themselves veto power over faculty tenure appointments. Later they tried to soothe irked professors by vowing that "no political tests shall ever be considered" in faculty hiring and promotion. But last month, despite that vow, the regents voted to fire Professor Davis-a Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, a protegee of New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and a onetime Black Panther-because she is, by her own admission, a member of the Communist Party. For the moment, she is being allowed to give...