Opposing a veto are some of the major oil firms, farm groups, the National Governors Association, food processors, truckers, some refining groups and independent gasoline retailers, and Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, James A. McClure (R-Idaho). ...
A veto would be "a major embarrassment to McClure," said Jack Blum, general counsel for the Independent Gasoline Marketers Council, one of the groups that favors the bill. "It would be sort of like kneecapping their chairman."
—Martha M. Hamilton, "The Lobbying War Over Oil Controls," The Washington Post, March 14, 1982
