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Pocket veto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver in American federal lawmaking that allows the President to indirectly veto a bill. The U.S. Constitution requires the President to sign or veto any legislatio...
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Pocket Veto Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2. The Constitution, in giving the President a qualified negative over legislation -- commonly called a veto -- entrusts him with an authority, and imposes upon him an obligation, that are of the highest [p656] importance, in the execution of which it is made his duty not only to sign bills that he approves in order...
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This is illustrated in the use of the term "pocket veto," which does not accurately describe the situation, and is misleading in its implications in that it suggests that the [p677] failure of the bill in such case is necessarily due to the disapproval of the president and the intentional withholding of the bill...
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Talk about political suicide for the Republican party! ... There has been speculation going around that President Bush could pull a "pocket veto" on The Secure Fence Act (HR 6061) that he still hasn't signed yet. The act approves 700 miles of fence along the southern border.
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