Word: vetoing
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...Even One. There are also limitations in the transportation field. No commercial aircraft operating within the U.S. can be registered to foreign nationals. The Civil Aeronautics Board is empowered to veto the acquisition by aliens of more than 10% of the capital or voting stock of any U.S. airline. Similarly, only ships that are American-built, -owned and -registered can be used to transport freight or passengers between points...
Inside the Bass house, Ford was preparing to veto some ecological legislation already passed by Congress. The strip mining bill he refused to sign called for regulating all strip mining and a 35-cent-per-ton excise tax on all surface-underground coal to pay for reclamation. Oddly enough, the measure would have cost Bass an estimated $100,000 annually because of his many mining leases...
While he was mulling over his options in Colorado last week, President Ford did not hesitate to use his veto power to knock down two energy-related bills passed by the outgoing 93rd Congress. Both bills, as Ford saw them, were at cross-purposes with the Administration's goals for dealing with both the energy problem and inflation...
Ford refused to sign the bill after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future...
...Less widely disputed was the President's pocket veto of the Energy Transportation Security Act. Backed by the politically powerful shipbuilders' and seafarers' unions, the bill provided that by 1977, fully 30% of all oil imported into the U.S. would have to be carried on tankers built in American yards and manned by American crews. Little oil is now imported in U.S.-registered tankers, which are considerably more costly to build and operate than most foreign-flag vessels. The bill would have increased federal subsidies to U.S. shipbuilders and operators, which now run to nearly $550 million...