Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rejected, by a 208-to-179 vote in the House, the Administration's $1.8 billion anti-poverty bill after it had been cleared by a Senate-House conference. Republican-led opposition centered on a House-approved section, allowing Governors a veto over federal community action programs proposed for their states. Some such clause will probably be reinstated in a later joint conference, but passage of the bill could be delayed until next month...
...Passed, in both chambers, a $1.78 billion military construction bill. House Republicans failed in an attempt to override President Johnson's veto of an earlier bill that would have required the executive branch to notify Congress at least 120 days before closing of any military base, giving Congress time to write restrictive legislation. Under the new bill, Congress will get a 30-day warning...
Ayub Khan even went to Moscow to patch up long-dilapidated fences. The Soviet Union had for many years defended India in the U.N., even interposing its veto to prevent censure of New Delhi for its failure to hold the Kashmir plebiscite. Now Russia, as worried as the U.S. by China's cozying up to Pakistan, made a joint statement advocating "resolute support" of peoples struggling for national liberation, which Pakistan interpreted as backing its stand on Kashmir. Like many heads of state before him, Ayub Khan was learning that it is better to get aid from both sides than...
Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...
Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania's William Scranton could use the veto power with a view to discrediting the poverty program. "These Northern Governors will screw this thing up so bad they can blame it all on Johnson," he charged. "This is a segregationist amendment. I understand that. I'm a segregationist...