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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (41452)2/26/2010 8:52:57 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Didn't those guys make new records for earmarks?

The current democrat Congress? Yes!

I don't remember Reagan using his Veto a lot.

It appears your memory is not as crisp as it used to be. (I didn't remember much about it either.)

Veto Rates Compared
President      Total1 
Washington         2 
J. Adams           0 
Jefferson          0 
Madison            7 
Monroe             1 
J. Q. Adams        0 
Jackson           12 
Van Buren          1 
W. H. Harrison     0 
Tyler             10 
Polk               3 
Taylor             0 
Fillmore           0 
Pierce             9 
Buchanan           7 
Lincoln            7 
A. Johnson        29 
Grant             93 
Hayes             13 
Garfield           0 
Arthur            12 
Cleveland (1st)  414 
B. Harrison       44 
Cleveland (2nd)  170 
McKinley          42 
T. Roosevelt      82 
Taft              39 
Wilson            44 
Harding            6 
Coolidge          50 
Hoover            37 
F. D. Roosevelt  635 
Truman           250 
Eisenhower       181 
Kennedy           21 
L. B. Johnson     30 
Nixon2            43 
Ford              66 
Carter            31 
Reagan            78 
G. H. W. Bush2    44 
Clinton           37 
G. W. Bush        10

1. Includes private bills drafted primarily for individual relief. Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed 497 such bills; Grover Cleveland vetoed 482. Bill Clinton did not veto any.
2. One Nixon veto later invalidated; Bush vetoes do not include two pocket vetoes not recognized by Congress.
Source: Congressional Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 3, Jan. 20, 2001; clerk.house.gov.

I also don't think it holds water any more to say that the Democrats are always responsible for all the spending after seeing how the Republicans did under Bush.


You can say that after seeing what the Obama / Pelosi Administration has done and what they have proposed? You should know I do blame President Bush for failing to veto a single Republican spending bill regardless of how much overspending was involved.
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