The Nation - News from Nov. 10, 1985
President Reagan risked a congressional override and vetoed for the second time legislation covering the biomedical research activities of the National Institutes of Health. Reagan said the measure was “overloaded with objectionable provisions that seriously undermine and threaten the ability of NIH to manage itself, and is therefore unacceptable.” A group of 77 senators, led by Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), had urged him to sign the bill.
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