Sentences with phrase «pocket veto»

This page on pocket vetoes from the website of the United States Senate makes the point quite clearly:

The most recent pocket veto was under the Clinton administration.

They asserted that the President's pocket veto was invalid, and that therefore the bill had become law.

There are references elsewhere in the Constitution to adjournments of differing lengths, nowhere does it specify exactly which adjournments would, or would not, be subject to the pocket veto.

An example of the confusion (and, I think, the first instance of a pocket veto being challenged in the courts) was Senate Bill 3185 which would have allowed Native Americans Washington State to sue for damages resulting from the loss of their tribal lands.

For the Obama administration, the status of 5 out of the 12 vetoes is disputed as Obama considered them to be pocket vetoes.

The complications come from how the pocket veto is defined in the Constitution

However, if Congress adjourns and the President did not sign the bill, the bill will not become law, it is known as a «pocket veto».

Taking a broader view of what counts as a pocket veto effectively increases the power of the presidential veto.

It goes to the President for his signature or veto (or intentional inaction, which either makes it effective or becomes a pocket veto depending on where on the calendar it falls).

@Tim A pocket veto can not be overridden.

If he doesn't take action by that deadline, the legislation fails — a quiet rejection known as a «pocket veto» that hasn't been utilized since the Pataki administration.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the president's action a «pocket veto,» although there was some dispute over whether Obama can use that method of disapproving legislation.

Rep. Paul DeMarco's Taxpayer Bill of Rights passed both houses but was pocket vetoed.

Since you can not really say no (for whatever reason) you can «pocket veto» the idea through distraction.

If the President ignores it («pocket veto»), it becomes law in 10 days (Sunday is not a day), unless Congress is not in session.