Date: April 29, 1976
Subject: Hatch Act Repeal Veto
Description: Passage, over the President's April 12 veto, of the bill to give federal employees the right to participate in partisan political campaigns and to run for local, state or federal office. The bill would allow federal employees to run for political office while on public payroll and to engage in other political activites, thus bringing about greater politicization of the federal bureaucracy and increasing the influence of federal and postal union bosses over Congress and the government.
Result: Veto Sustained, 243-160
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