When Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
pocket veto
The 'pocket veto' only works if Congress is within 10 days of adjourning.
The Pocket Veto The Pocket Veto
A pocket veto is not a direct veto of a bill. Rather, it occurs when the president holds onto a bill, unsigned, until after Congress adjourns.
Sign it, veto it, do a pocket veto.
A pocket veto is used when the president doesn't want to declare for or against a bill. he simply doesn't sign it and the bill expires. He doesn't really put it in his pocket but the name pocket veto came from folks talking about it and saying he might just put it in his pocket and forget it.
The two types of veto that can be carried out by the president are the "Pocket Veto" and the "Regular Veto." The Pocket Veto is where the president is given a bill, but fails to sign it within the ten days of the adjournment of Congress. The Pocket Veto is less common. The Regular Veto is one in which the president returns the bill back to Congress, with a message explaining his problems, reasons for return, and recommendations for revision. From there Congress may or may not fix it depending on it's actual importance.
The President can use a pocket veto is when two conditions exist: Congress adjourns for more than ten days, and bill return to Congress is not possible. In recent years, presidents have used a controversial procedure called a "protective return" pocket veto, when presidents claim the right to pocket veto a bill, but then return it to Congress's legally designated agents.
pocket veto
The veto and the pocket veto are two ways that the _____ can reject a bill
In the early history of the USA, the pocket veto was rarely used. For over 60 plus years US presidents exercised the pocket veto 18 times.
With a "regular" veto, the president prevents it from becoming a law by withholding his signature and returning it to Congress; with a pocket veto he also withholds his signature, but does so when Congress has adjourned and has not designated a legal agent to receive veto or other messages (as at the end of a two-year congress). This is a pocket veto, and the bill dies after 10 days of being submitted to the president. A pocket veto applies only when the Congress is not in session.