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On the recordJuly 6, 1976
This provision extends to the Congress the power to prohibit specific transactions authorized by law, without changing the law and without following the constitutional process such a change would require.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Veto of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Bill

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