From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 23 05:14:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA25926 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:14:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA25920 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA03087; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:12:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 05:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: Levels of Indirection Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: Terry Lambert cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rkw@dataplex.net Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: <199611221750.KAA15725@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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