Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford, moreover, won a major legislative battle as the Senate failed by three votes to override his veto of an emergency $6.2 billion public works bill, which Democratic congressional leaders claimed would have created at least 600,000 new jobs within a year. But Ford, backed by many economists, considers the creation of public works projects an expensive approach to reducing unemployment. He places higher priority on stimulating the private economy to produce longer-lasting jobs...
Wrong Time. The House had passed the bill last month by a smashing margin of 321 to 80. The Senate in July had approved it, 65 to 28. But Ford used his 43rd veto to reject the bill, calling it "an election-year pork barrel." At his press conference last week, Ford attacked it as "a hoax." Most analysts agreed with him that it would have created far fewer than 600,000 jobs-although Ford's estimates that it would produce only some 100,000 jobs at a cost of more than $25,000 per job were exaggerations...
Ford firmly rejects the more extreme proposals of congressional critics of the intelligence agencies. Among them are suggestions that a permanent special prosecutor be appointed to prosecute wrongdoing by undercover agents, that the intelligence budget be made public, and that Congress be permitted to exercise veto power over covert CIA operations before they are begun...
...Coleman "has decided to place the profits of a foreign airline ahead of the health of Americans living around Kennedy and Dulles airports." Congressional or court action would be necessary to keep the jet out of Dulles, a federal facility, but New York's Governor Hugh Carey has veto power over what happens at Kennedy, and he has declared his flat opposition to the Concorde...
...experienced 1975 student members replaced by an almost totally green board elected last fall which can--and apparently will--vote to reverse the recommendations that their predecessors approved after extended debate. Finally, when CHUL does settle on its final housing recommendations, they will go to Dean Rosovsky, who could veto the CHUL's recommendation and choose his own plan...