Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford promised to veto the bill suspending his tariff hike even though more than two-thirds of the Senate voted for it -enough to override a veto. Yet in the hope of sustaining his veto, he moved toward a compromise, what he called "committing ourselves to a gasoline tilt." He was willing, he suggested, to let the price of gasoline rise higher than that of other oil products. While his original program would have entailed a 100-per-gal. boost on all oil products, he would now permit gasoline to absorb most of the price increase. He was also considering...
Even so, the Administration is prepared for the worst, so that in a sense it cannot lose, whatever the Democrats do. If Ford's veto is sustained, the Democrats will have to go along, however grudgingly, with his program. Says a high-ranking member of the Federal Energy Administration: "The Democrats will have to sit down and talk with us. They'll realize they can't get away with just throwing up roadblocks. The ball will be in their court." But if the Democrats override the veto and enact their own program, the President will be able...
Public Apprehension. The White House policy of confronting, then compromising with Congress has its risks. If the Senate overrides the President's veto, it may not be in a mood to bargain with Ford. He could be bullied and disregarded for the rest of his term, with a resulting stalemate Government. The public seems to share this apprehension. A Louis Harris poll disclosed last week that only 39% of the respondents think Ford will "surprise people by being a strong and decisive President." Another 41% feel that he does not "seem to be very smart about the issues facing...
...case involved Nixon's decision to spend no more than $5 billion of the $11 billion that Congress had appropriated, over his veto, for water-pollution control. Although the court stuck strictly to the language of the pollution law and avoided any sorting of federal powers, Justice Byron White's opinion bluntly agreed with the plaintiff, New York City, that "the act does not permit such action" by any President...
...together a quorum and approved, by a vote of 12 to 2, the House bill postponing the oil import fees for 90 days. Though the measure will be easily passed in the Senate, the question is whether or not it will get the two-thirds vote to override a veto...