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What happens when a president doesn't return a bill in 10 days and what is the exception to the rule?
The president gets only 1 chance to get it
If the president neighter signs nor returns a bill to congress during the time allowed that bill?
The bill automatically dies. For a president to allow that to happen is known as a pocket veto.
What are the two ways a president can allow a bill to become law?
When encountered with documentation that is being debated upon to be law, the president can do 1 of 3 things. He can either veto it, leave it on his desk for 10 days (if he chooses to do so then after ten days the bill becomes a law), or he can sign it into a law.
The president can pocket veto a bill only if?
The President can use a pocket veto on a bill if Congress is adjournment. Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution states: If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days ...the same shall be a Law...unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its return.
The presidents ability to kill a bill by holding it for ten days while congress is not in session is called?
The president's ability to kill a bill by holding it for ten days while Congress is not in session is called a pocket veto. This occurs when the president does not sign the bill into law and also does not return it to Congress with objections within the ten-day period. As a result, the bill does not become law and is effectively vetoed.
