Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bills have been introduced in Congress in the past few years either to split the oil giants into separate drilling, refining, transportation and marketing companies, or to force them to get out of other fields of energy such as coal and nuclear power, or both. Carter should pledge to veto any such move. At the very moment when incalculably huge sums are needed to develop new sources of energy, the oil companies alone in U.S. industry have the muscle-money, know-how and organization-to do the job. And their own survival is at stake: unless they expand into...
...Fogg is loaning a drawing to another museum, the lab may veto the deal if the work is not "stable," Beale said. As an example, Beale describes what might occur if an unfixed pastel, with pigments unbounded to paper, was transported from the building. One smudge would destroy a priceless picture, he said...
...particular example, the EPA'S recent action obliging the Ford Motor Co. to recall 54,000 cars to make sure that they meet emission standards. Skepticism can be credited with last year's California referendum on nuclear power; the fact that the voters did not veto nuclear expansion misses the point, which is that an arcane subject hitherto considered the sole province of the scientist and engineer was submitted to ordinary citizens. And only a remarkably awakened citizenry could have inspired the self-criticism of the recent Senate committee report that chastised the Senate for laxness in overseeing...
...Congressman Jack Brooks, the most vocal opponent of the President's Government reorganization plans, by inviting the members of Brooks' Government Operations Committee to discuss his proposals at the White House. (Carter is seeking the power granted most recent Presidents to reorganize the Government, subject to congressional veto of the whole package; Brooks wants congressional power to approve or reject each specific change...
...repeat them as the bill goes before the full House and then the Senate. In the end, the outlook is that Congress will pass an economic-stimulus package of about the size and composition that Carter wants, with some changes that the President will regret -but not enough to veto the bill...