Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: Levels of Indirection <root@narcissus.ml.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rkw@dataplex.net Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961123051030.3052D-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199611221750.KAA15725@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > It's where a bill (a proposed law) has been passed by congress and > sent to the president for him to either sign into law (if he agrees > with it), or to veto (if he disagrees with it). > > If the bill is vetoed, the congress can repass the bill with an > overwhelming majority, and it will become law anyway, over the > veto. This process is called "overriding a veto". > > A president has a third option. If he neither signs, nor vetos, > a bill in a specified time period, the bill is considered to have > been vetoed. As if the president had put it in his pocket, and > forgotten about it. > I have to point out a factual error here. The pocket veto is only available to the President at certain specific times. Normally, if he doesn't sign a bill, it passes into law automatically. It's only if Congress goes out of session before the ten days end that the bill is pocket vetoed. > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Ben
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