What is the difference in the effects between a pocket veto and a normal veto registered by the president?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

A pocket veto can not be overridden, even by a 2/3 majority of both houses. A pocket veto can only be used if Congress adjourns within the ten days in which the bill was placed on the president's desk. If Congress is adjourned, they cannot, of course, override the veto. If Congress doesn't adjourn, the bill becomes law.

A normal veto can be overridden by a 2/3 majority of both houses, in which case the bill becomes law.

Answer 3

A pocket veto is a presidential veto, but of a particular type. There are two types of vetoes: a regular or return veto, when the president sends a bill, along with his objections, back to Congress (which can override by 2/3 vote of both houses). A pocket veto only comes in to play when Congress by its adjournment prevents return of the bill. Under these circumstances, if Congress is a) adjourned, and b) bill return is not possible (bill return is possible when Congress designates an agent to receive veto messages and other communications), and if the president withholds his signature, the bill dies instead of becoming law. That is the pocket veto. (If the president neither signs nor vetoes a bill when Congress is in session, the bill becomes law without his signature after 10 days.)

Answer 4

Pocket veto:Killing a bill by ignoring it for 10 days after congress has adjourned. Presidential veto: When the president refuses to sign a bill.

Answer 5

A veto is a written signing against a bill sent from Congress. A pocket veto is one that the President just ignores or "puts it in his pocket".

Answer 6

Applies only when the Congress is not in session