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...There's not a very good chance that Republicans will gain the kind of vetoproof Congress they were talking about earlier in the year," said Edwards, who is also a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Panel Discusses Elections | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

Democrats lost 21 seats in the assembly and 10 seats in the senate, providing the Republicans with vetoproof majorities in both houses. According to an election-eve poll, more than half of those questioned said Governor Florio's policies were the major issue in the campaign. Republican leaders immediately announced a rollback in the sales tax from 7% to 6%. But faced with a potential deficit next year, they are unwilling to make any additional promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notes: A Tax Backlash Jolts Jersey Legislators | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...elite Business Roundtable), new tactics and a new awareness by executives that they need to make their voice heard on Capitol Hill. Though some experts trace the speedup in business lobbying efforts to 1973, when AFL-CIO President George Meany's call for election of a "vetoproof Congress prodded corporate leaders into action, all agree that the biggest spur was the election of Jimmy Carter. Says the N.F.I.B.'s Motley: "With Ford in there we could count on vetoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOBBIES: New Corporate Clout in the Capital | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...knuckled aides, Speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan and Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt. On three evenings he traveled to G.O.P. fund-raising dinners to cheer up dispirited party members and warn that "catastrophic defeat" of Republicans in November might destroy the nation's two-party system and result in a vetoproof Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: In Quest of a Distinctive Presidency | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...these. But since the Democrats may well hold all 20 of their seats that are being contested, they could end up with a margin of around 62-38 in the Senate (it is now 58-42). There is even an outside chance that the election could produce a "vetoproof Congress," with the Democrats controlling two-thirds of both the House and the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Landslide in the Making | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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