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Enacted over the president's veto (19 Stat. 208). August 24, 1876: Pocket-vetoed S. 990, an act to remove the political disabilities of Reuben Davis, of Mississippi. January 15, 1877: Vetoed H.R. 2041, an act to amend section 2291 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to proof required in homestead entries.
For example, the chairperson of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians has a veto power, including over budgetary matters. [84] Some constitutions give the executive the power to refer a law to a referendum rather than to veto it directly.
A veto player is a political actor who has the ability to stop a change from the status quo. [141] There are institutional veto players, whose consent is required by constitution or statute; for example, in US federal legislation, the veto players are the House, Senate and presidency. [142]
The lone veto ever cast by the Republic of China, blocking the General Assembly membership of Mongolia, was not its own resolution and does not appear in the above table. Instead, the membership applications of 18 countries were being discussed, and the Soviet Union initially demanded 18 different resolutions in the order they applied (which ...
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 ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will veto a bill that would block his state’s prison system from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his office told Fox News Digital ...
Georgia’s Senate voted 33-21 on Monday to pass a bill that would give legislators a veto over significant regulations imposed by the executive branch, a move that has hampered safety efforts and ...
A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action ("keeping it in their pocket" [1]), thus effectively killing the bill without affirmatively vetoing it. This depends on the laws of each country; the common alternative is that if the president ...