Word: vetoproof
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...