Download or read book Presidential Vetoes 1789 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Vetoes written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Vetoes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Vetoes 1789 1988 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy written by Richard Abernathy Watson and published by Studies in Government and Public Policy. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of presidential vetoes from FDR to Jimmy Carter which clarifies the problems caused by the veto and reveals how it has shaped public policy, Watson concludes that the veto power has operated well both in terms of public policy and relations between Congress and the president and argues that it would be a mistake to alter it through the adoption of an item veto.

Download or read book Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill written by Stephen R. Ortiz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I veterans. Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), Stephen R. Ortiz reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill is unique in its treatment of World War I veterans as significant political actors during the interwar period. Ortiz’s study reinterprets the political origins of the "Second" New Deal and Roosevelt’s electoral triumph of 1936, adding depth not only to our understanding of these events and the political climate surrounding them, but to common perceptions of veterans and their organizations. In describing veteran politics and the competitive dynamics between the AL and the VFW, Ortiz details the rise of organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American politics.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the the Fifty third Congress to the 76th Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 3260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veto Messages written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Doughboys the Great War and the Remaking of America written by Jennifer D. Keene and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917–18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history—the G.I. Bill. Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts—in their view—entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.

Download or read book Veto Messages written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veto Messages Record of Bills Vetoed and Action Taken There on by the Senate and House of Representatives Fifty first Congress Through the Eighty second Congress 1889 1952 written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bonus Army written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, this highly praised history recounts the 1932 march on Washington by 15,000 World War I veterans and the protest's role in the transformation of American society. "Recommended." — Library Journal.

Download or read book The Philosopher Lobbyist written by Mordecai Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of John Dewey’s leadership of the progressive People’s Lobby. John Dewey (1859–1952) was a preeminent American philosopher who is remembered today as the founder of what is called child-centered or progressive education. In The Philosopher-Lobbyist, Mordecai Lee tells the largely forgotten story of Dewey’s effort to influence public opinion and promote democratic citizenship. Based on Dewey’s 1927 book The Public and Its Problems, the People’s Lobby was a trailblazing nonprofit agency, an early forerunner of the now common public interest lobbying group. It used multiple forms of mass communication, grassroots organizing, and lobbying to counteract the many special interest groups and lobbies that seemed to be dominating policymaking in Congress and in the White House. During the 1930s, Dewey and the People’s Lobby criticized the New Deal as too conservative and championed a social democratic alternative, including a more progressive tax system, government ownership of natural monopolies, and state operation of the railroad system. While its impact on historical developments was small, the story of the People’s Lobby is an important reminder of a historical road not traveled and a policy agenda that was not adopted, but could have been.

Download or read book Paid Patriotism written by James T. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war nor combat? These questions have been answered in varying ways by the American people and their elected representatives since the Revolutionary War. Paid Patriotism? explores the genesis and growth of soldiers’ pensions throughout the nineteenth century, the Bonus experiment after the First World War, the passage and consequences of the GI Bill of Rights, the growth of the nation’s system of veterans’ hospitals, the evolution of veterans’ programs during the Cold War and Vietnam, the post-9/11 GI Bill, and contemporary scandals and reform efforts within the veterans’ bureaucracy, from its promotion to a cabinet department to wrongdoing in the Veterans Health Administration. James T. Bennett examines the complex and politically charged history and heated present-day debate of what the late columnist William Safire called the “most sacred cow” in Washington: the veterans’ bureaucracy. In the end, the United States and its citizens owe veterans a debt. But how has and how should that debt be honored—and at what cost?

Download or read book How Our Laws are Made written by John V. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Vetoes written by Gary L. Galemore and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veto power is one of the most important aspects of checks and balances in the United States Government, as it helps the executive branch to check the legislative. A bill presented by Congress needs the signature of the President to become law, except when the Congress successfully overrides a veto with a 2/3 majority vote in both houses. This book provides important information about vetoes from the 1st session of the 2nd Congress under George Washington to the 1st session of the 105th Congress under Bill Clinton.