Sentences with phrase «presidential veto»

Others are: Submission from the Judiciary Bill, Determination of Pre-Election Matters Bill, Consequential Amendment on Civil Defence Bill, Procedure for Overriding Presidential Veto in Constitutional Alteration, and Timeline for the Presentation of Appropriation Bill.

The omnibus approach allows for greater range of negotiation than any individual bill would and also makes a possible presidential veto over a particular issue less likely.

The Senate vote is also not enough to override a threatened presidential veto.

And the White House, which wields presidential veto power, has not yet taken a stance on either measure.

But despite widespread unhappiness in the party over Trump's tariffs, passage of such legislation would be a long shot - especially since a two - thirds super-majority would be needed for passage over a likely presidential veto.

When it was proposed to outlaw this hideous procedure, which obviously causes extreme pain to the baby, the pro-abortion forces in Congress and elsewhere made false statements to fend off the legislation or to justify an anticipated presidential veto.

Mr Blair also used his trip to California to woo researchers in stem cell science to come to the UK, after Mr Bush used his first presidential veto to block the further expansion of federal investment in this area of research.

A parliamentary system would protect against a theoretical US shutdown caused by presidential veto of a budget from a Congress that didn't have enough votes to override it - but that's not what happened here.

Washington — Rep. Diana DeGette's bill lifting restrictions on embryonic stem - cell research is slated for a Senate vote next week, packaged with items aimed at preventing a repeat presidential veto.

The bill was expected to be approved by a margin short of the two - thirds needed to override an expected Presidential veto.

And with a GOP Congress freed from a Democratic presidential veto, conservative lawmakers have already begun eyeing new legislation that just a few months ago seemed like political pipedreams.

One thing to hope for is that the whole thing just goes away: eliminating the estate tax entirely is greatly desired by one political party and they are currently in a position to do something about it without worrying about Presidential vetoes.

The Dole amendment, offered in an attempt to head off a threatened Presidential veto, would require some recipients to participate in unpaid community work projects.

After hours of delay due to a sit - in by Democrats, the House of Representatives failed late Wednesday night to override a presidential veto on a resolution to nullify the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule.

But DOL fiduciary rule advocates maintain that challenges to kill DOL's fiduciary redraft in Congress will not survive a presidential veto.

Republicans knew that President Obama would likely have vetoed Keystone, and would have had the votes to resist an override by Congress (two - thirds of both Houses are required to override a presidential veto).

Neither, of course, expected the vote to go through, much less survive a presidential veto.

Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

Can a Presidential Veto be overridden with two thirds of the quorum, or is two - thirds of the total seats required?

With so much on the line, Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee like Mr. Kaine had hoped to not only rally the 34 senators needed to sustain a presidential veto, but also to possibly keep enough Democrats behind the president to filibuster a resolution of disapproval next month.

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

Presidential Veto and Executive Orders for anything immediate.

The Senate on Tuesday rejected a bid to strip from the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill provisions designed to codify the handling of detainees, putting the bill at risk of a presidential veto.

Indeed, she can expect a torrent of calls for her to go if she defies the White House this time — even with the Iran deal already having the votes to sustain a presidential veto in the Senate.

«There will be enough Democratic votes to sustain a presidential veto,» the New York Democrat told CBS «Face the Nation.»

It will not be easy, however, for the current bill to garner the 67 votes needed to override a presidential veto — which would be all but certain if it actually made it to the president's desk.

Despite a presidential veto threat and criticism from Rep. Jared Polis (D - Colo.)

The Legislative Branch (House and Senate) checks on the president; can override a presidential veto; can impeach and remove the president; ratifies presidential appointments; authorizes / appropriates funds for legislation; checks on the judiciary; can impeach and remove judges; confirms federal judges.

Faced with the threat of a presidential veto, Republican lawmakers last week cut a bitterly contested school provision from a broad immigration - reform bill and vowed to pursue the school measure separately.

Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

The top priority is a proposal for tax - free tuition - savings accounts that Congress removed from a recent tax - cutting bill under the threat of a presidential veto.

With the threat of a Presidential veto gone, Congress is poised to vote before summer on several bills that would boost funding for family - planning clinics, strengthen abortion rights, and fund sex - education programs — actions that could affect millions of teenagers.

Washington — Although House and Senate conferees finally agreed last week on a record 1985 spending level for the Education Department, the appropriations bill — one of many rolled into a $ 500 - billion catchall measure put together by a Congress scurrying to adjourn for the campaign season — may face a Presidential veto.

The nine chapters cover a wide range of topics, including bicameralism, presidential vetoes, gerrymandering, term limits, and voting rights.

The CRA resolutions of disapproval are not subject to a filibuster in the Senate — though they are subject to presidential veto.

It faces broad resistance from Republicans and proponents admit it will be an uphill struggle to reach the 60 votes needed for approval in the the Senate that would withstand a presidential veto.

Fortunately, this effort will be D.O.A at the White House and congressional Republicans won't be able to override a presidential veto.»

Were it to find a new life, it would take years to scale that cliff again via multinational Congressional negotiations which would very likely be met with a presidential veto were it to go that far.

«U.S. Chamber's Donohue Comments on Presidential Veto of Keystone XL Pipeline Legislation,» Institute for 21st Century Energy, February 24, 2015.

The White House isn't enthused about picking up the potential tab, but political analysts say there might be enough Senate votes in favor of the bill to override a Presidential veto.

The Farm Bill provision, which Stimmel says has already been changed during deliberations, may change again and could well perish in a presidential veto, calls for a 30 percent credit capped at $ 4,000.

III, § 1, of the Constitution can no more be shared with the Executive Branch than the Chief Executive, for example, can share with the Judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with the Judiciary the power to override a Presidential veto.

Just as it must now contemplate a presidential veto, so too would Congress need to anticipate how states will react.

While the passage of the Act was not surprising (the Democratic Party was in control of the House of Representatives), what was surprising was the number of Republicans that also supported the Bill (55 votes)-- a number sufficient to override a presidential veto.

That is to say, he was unwilling to concede that if the national legislature passes a law requiring cessation of certain hostilities — presumably by a supermajority sufficient to override a presidential veto — the President must abide by that statute.

Without the promise of a presidential veto, there's only one thing that can stop this destructive agenda: Us.