line item veto act

Examples of line item veto act in the following topics:

• Chief Legislator

  • When the president receives legislation, he decides whether to veto it, use the pocket veto, sign it, or do nothing.
  • In 1996, Congress attempted to enhance the president's veto power with the Line Item Veto Act.
  • Once a president had stricken the item, Congress could pass that particular item again.
  • If the president then vetoed the new legislation, Congress could override the veto by the ordinary method of a two-thirds vote in both houses.
  • Assess the significance of the Line Item Veto for executive power

• Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

  • Truman twice vetoed bills to lower income tax rates in 1947.
  • Although the initial vetoes were sustained, Congress overrode his veto of a tax cut bill in 1948.
  • For example, although Truman vetoed it, the Taft-Hartley Act significantly curtailed the power of the labor unions.
  • This Act prohibits unfair practices by labor unions.
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.

• The Impeachment and Trial of Johnson

  • Radical Republicans were convinced that as President, Johnson would enact their hard line Reconstruction policies, specifically protection for newly freed slaves and punishments for former slave owners, as well as for government and military officials.
  • Congress was able to override only a few of his vetoes, setting the stage for a historic confrontation between Congress and the President.
  • In 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in an effort to protect Edwin M.
  • Johnson, who believed that the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional, ignored the act and suspended Stanton anyway, replacing him with General Ulysses Grant on August 5, 1867.
  • United States affirmed "that the Tenure of Office Act of 1867...was invalid".

• Peacetime Politics

  • With the Soviet Union expanding its sphere of influence through Eastern Europe, Truman and his foreign policy advisors took a hard line against the USSR.
  • The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • A rapid increase in costs was fueled by the release of price controls on most items, and labor sought wage increases.
  • The Republican Congress significantly curtailed the power of labor unions by the Taft–Hartley Act, which was enacted over Truman's veto.
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.

• Product Line

  • Line consistency refers to how closely related the products that make up the line are.
  • There are two basic strategies for dealing with whether the company will attempt to carry every conceivable product needed and wanted by the consumer or whether they will carry selected items.
  • Few full-line manufacturers attempt to provide items for every conceivable market niche.
  • And few limited-line manufacturers would refuse to add an item if the demand were great enough.
  • These added items tend to be similar to existing brands with no innovations.

• Johnson's Plan

  • When he became President, however, Johnson took a much softer line and pardoned many of them.
  • Johnson vetoed the renewal of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill in February 1866.
  • An attempt to override the veto failed on February 20, 1866.
  • The House's primary charge against Johnson was with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress the previous year.
  • Stanton, the Secretary of War (whom the Tenure of Office Act was largely designed to protect), from office and attempted to replace him with Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas.

• Hoover's Efforts at Recovery

  • Despite the objections of many economists, Hoover signed the Tariff Act of 1930, commonly called the Smoot–Hawley Tariff, which raised the entry tax on more than 20,000 items imported from foreign countries to historically high levels.
  • A petition signed in May 1930 by 1,028 U.S. economists had asked Hoover to veto, rather than pass, the tariff act.
  • Automobile magnate Henry Ford visited the White House in an attempt to convince Hoover to veto the bill, while J.P.
  • Lamont was quoted as saying he “almost went down on my knees to beg Herbert Hoover to veto the asinine Hawley-Smooth tariff.”
  • Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives.

• Product Line Depth

  • The number of products in a product line refer to its product line depth, while the number of separate product lines owned by a company is the product line width (or breadth) .
  • There are two basic strategies that deal with whether the company will attempt to carry every conceivable product needed and wanted by the consumer or whether they will carry selected items.
  • The former is a full-line strategy while the latter is called a limited-line strategy.
  • What will happen if we do not act?
  • Describe the different tactics for implementing full-line and limited-line product strategies

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • Poland was the first item on the Soviet agenda.
  • Furthermore, the Soviets had agreed to join the United Nations, given the secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, thus ensuring that each country could block unwanted decisions.
  • The Polish eastern border would follow the Curzon Line and Poland would receive territorial compensation in the West from Germany.

• The Compromise of 1877

  • Subsequently, in a series of party-line votes, the Commission awarded all twenty disputed electoral votes to Hayes.
  • Under the Electoral Commission Act, the Commission's findings were final unless overruled by both houses of Congress.
  • In any case, whether by a semi-formal deal or simply reassurances already in line with Hayes's announced plans, talks with Southern Democrats satisfied the worries of many and, therefore, prevented a Congressional filibuster that had threatened to extend resolution of the election dispute beyond Inauguration Day 1877.
  • As for the final two points, if indeed there was any such firm agreement, they were never acted on.
  • Hayes vetoed bills from the Democrats that outlawed the Republican Enforcement Acts; however, with the military underfunded, Hayes could not adequately enforce these laws.