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Seven vetoes (two regular vetoes and five pocket vetoes): [9]: 28–29 June 23, 1862: Vetoed S. 193, an act to repeal that part of an act of Congress which prohibits the circulation of bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia.
The presidential veto power provided by the 1789 Constitution was first exercised on April 5, 1792, when President George Washington vetoed a bill outlining a new apportionment formula. [22] Apportionment described how Congress divides seats in the House of Representatives among the states based on the US census figures.
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Some veto powers are limited in their subject matter. A constitutional veto only allows the executive to veto bills that are unconstitutional; in contrast, a "policy veto" can be used wherever the executive disagrees with the bill on policy grounds. [3] Presidents with constitutional vetoes include those of Benin and South Africa.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments about a partial veto that purports to extend school funding increases for 400 years, without legislative approval, by “vetoing” seven words ...
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that drafted the U.S. Constitution considered and rejected proposals for a legislative veto designed to reconcile the states to the federal union. Edmund Randolph proposed that: "The National Legislature ought to be impowered [sic] . . . to negative all laws passed by the several States ...
VETOED: Requiring elections to fill vacancies in constitutional offices. Evers vetoed a Republican-authored bill that would have required him to call special elections if a state constitutional ...
Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four ...