President Ford Loses First Veto Fight Of Year
The Senate, 67 to 15, overrides Ford veto on a 2.02 billion health services and nurses training bill. The measure would expand community mental health centers, extend nurses training, and includes programs for hypertension and rape prevention. House action pending. Kennedy backs the override.
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Cox Takes Defense Of Law In Landmark Election Act
Archibald Cox has undertaken the legal defense of the constitutionality of the new federal election law. Senators Kennedy and Scott announced Cox will file a brief with the Supreme Court and seek permission to represent them in oral arguments in Buckley McCarthy's challenge to limits on contributions and expenditures, public financing, and the new federal Election Commission. Cox, fired as special prosecutor by Nixon, joins the case for Kennedy and Scott.
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Ford vetoes health bill marks 36th veto in office
President Ford’s Saturday veto of the health services bill brings his total vetoes to 36 in less than a year. He has rejected measures spanning oil and energy policy and even animal health research funding. Congress has overridden him four times this past year, with the Senate vote 67 to 15 on the health services veto signaling the first successful override attempt this year. Ford entered office August 9, 1974, and began vetoing quickly, outpacing Richard Nixon’s 25 vetoes in 8 years.
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Sterilizing Law Test Set For Forsyth Juvenile Court
In Winston-Salem AP report a new state law allowing involuntary sterilization of mentally ill or retarded persons will face its first test Monday in Forsyth Juvenile Court. The Forsyth Department of Social Services petitions to sterilize a 15 year old boy with an IQ of 40 after his mother requested the procedure. constitutional questions arise about equal protection. The hearing shuts out the public and press.
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