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Ronald Reagan signing a veto in 1988. In the United States, the president can use the veto power to prevent a bill passed by the Congress from becoming law. Congress can override the veto by a two-thirds vote of both chambers. All state and territorial governors have a similar veto power, as do some mayors and county executives.
The legislative veto provision found in federal legislation took several forms. Some laws established a veto procedure that required a simple resolution passed by a majority vote of one chamber of Congress. Other laws required a concurrent resolution passed by both the House and the Senate. Some statutes made the veto process more difficult by ...
Congress can override the veto via a 2/3 vote with both houses voting separately, after which the bill becomes law. [85] The president may also exercise a line-item veto on money bills. [85] The president does not have a pocket veto: once the bill has been received by the president, the chief executive has thirty days to veto the bill.
The House passed the JUDGES Act, which authorizes 63 new federal judge positions, under threat of a veto from President Biden.
(The term "override" is used to describe this process of overcoming a presidential veto.) If the president does nothing with the bill (neither signing it nor returning it to Congress with objections) and Congress does not by its adjournment prevent the bill's return, then the bill becomes law after ten days (excluding Sundays).
But the outgoing Democratic president made good on a veto threat issued two days before the bill passed the Republican-led House of Representatives on Dec. 12 on a 236-173 vote.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $741 billion defense policy bill, hours after President Trump renewed his pledge to veto the measure.
(The new Congress would then meet for some days, for the inauguration, swearing in new members, and organization.) The Constitution forbids either house from meeting any place outside the United States Capitol, or from adjourning for more than three days, without the consent of the other house. The provision was intended to prevent one house ...