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If the president neither signs nor returns a bill to congress during the time allowed what happens to the bill?
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It becomes a pocket veto.
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If a bill is sent to the president one week before Congress adjourns and the president neither signs it nor returns it does it become a law?
No it doesn't become law. It is called a pocket veto when he neither signs or directly vetoes it. The fact that congress adjourned has little influence because he has 10 days to let it sit doing nothing.
What happens to the bill that the president refuses to sign?
When a bill that has passed both Houses of Congress is presented to the President, he/she can do three things:Sign it into law.Return it to the House where it originated with his/her objections (veto it).Do nothing.Once presented with a bill, the President has ten days not counting Sundays in which to either sign it or veto it. If he/she does neither within those ten days, and at the end of the ten days Congress is still in session, the bill automatically becomes a law. If the President neither signs nor vetoes the bill within the ten days, and at the end of the ten days Congress is no longer in session, the bill automatically dies. To allow a bill passed by Congress during the last ten days of its session to die by doing nothing with it is known as a pocket veto.If the President returns the bill with his/her objections, Congress can modify it and pass a revised version, which the President again would choose to sign or veto. However, if at least two thirds of each House of Congress votes to pass the version that the President rejected, it becomes law anyway; that is known as overriding the President's veto.
How does congress limit the power of the president?
One way congress can limit the power of the president is by refusing or accepting who the president nominates for the Supreme Court. Congress can also veto a bill the president passes if they get a two thirds majority vote.
What happens in a pocket veto?
When a bill is sent to the president to be ratified, the president can choose to sign it into law, reject it by veto (sending it back to Congress, which may attempt to override the veto by 2/3 vote of both houses), or neither sign nor veto, in which case it will become law after 10 days (not including Sundays) without his signature. There is one circumstance where a president withholding signature results in killing the bill, and this is the pocket veto. A pocket veto may only be used when two circumstances exist: when Congress has adjourned, and when that adjournment prevents return of the bill by the president to Congress. In the modern era, these circumstances arise at the end of a two year congress.
Compare Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress?
Neither was elected to Congress
Pocket veto can only be used when?
When Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
What two protections do federal judges have against the other two branches of government?
They are appointed for life, unless convicted of treason. And, neither the President or Congress can reduce their salary.
Neither house of congress may end a session without the consent of the other?
neither house of congress may adjourn without the consent of the other house.
What is the power given to each branch over each other called in the constitution?
checks and balances. That is, there are three branches of government. The Legislative Branch is congress (House and Senate)...they write laws. The Executive Branch is the President and his cabinet. The president signs or vetoes the laws that Congress creates. The Judicial Branch, which is the Supreme Court, interprets the laws created by Congress and signed by the President. The Congress are elected by the people of the land. So is the President. However, the Supreme court justices are selected by the president, and voted into their positions by congress, after a process of examination by the Congress. Checks and balances exists so that no one branch of government has all the power. The Congress makes laws but cannot make them INTO law, without the President's signature. The president can sign bills into law, but he has no power to create laws (unless he practices "Executive Order" which every president has done since the first: Abraham Lincoln made a law about eliminating slavery, WITHOUT congressional approval) the Supreme Court hears cases where the laws of the United States are exercised. They decide what is the just application of the laws created by the Congress and signed by the President. The Congress doesn't apply the law, and neither does the President.
Which president rode in an airplane president Lincoln or President Washington?
Neither
When the powers are neither granted to the congress nor denied to the states what are they considered to belong to?
both congress and the states
Does either branch of congress answer directly to the president?
Neither branch answers to the President. The purpose of the separation of powers was to insure that no one of the three branches had complete control over the other two. Each of the branches has some control over the others, but it is not total.
