Nixon’s curb on spending
(N Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. President Nixon has vetoed a $U524,600m anti-pollution bill designed to clean America’s waterways by 1975, on the ground that the amount —more than four times what he had requested for the three-year period—is inflationary. But it is thought that Congress will have little trouble in overriding the veto. The Senate has approved the bill by a 74 to nil vote, and the House of Representatives by 366 votes to 11. The veto is seen as a direct challenge to Congress over what Mr Nixon has said is excessive spending by legislators. In a speech earlier this month, the President pledged not to propose any new taxes if he had another four years in the White House, provided Congress did not spend excessively. Only an hour before the veto, the Senate had defeated an Administration-supported bill which would have set a limit on Federal spending of SUS2SO,OOOm in the financial year ending next June 30.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33051, 19 October 1972, Page 17
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