He has only ten days to exercise his veto power once a bill is reported to him.
If he fails to act in those 10 days, the bill becomes law. However, if Congress adjourns before he has had 10 days to respond, the bill dies if he does not sign it.
Veto
The veto and the pocket veto are two ways that the _____ can reject a bill
The president can veto a bill that congress has passed.
The President is the one that can use a pocket veto. This type of veto happens if Congress adjourns within the 10-day period the President has to pass or veto the bill.
The President of the United States can check the power of the Legislature by either signing a bill into law or vetoing a bill. After a president vetoes a bill, it might go back to the House of Representatives to be changed and the process starts all over again.
No the President's veto power is part of the checks and balances on Congress.
He or she does not want a law passed
A President of the United States has the right to veto or say 'no' to any law that comes before him. The President can also veto a part of a bill, so that Congress might go back over the bill and revise it before it is fully passed. In this way, the President might be getting things done that were on his agenda when he took office.
Veto is a word for rejecting a specific action. It is usually performed by a chief officer who has the power to override a committee's proposed action. "The President threatened to veto the Congressional bill if it was not changed."The governor wants to veto the bill.The senate will override the veto.
"The bill will not become law because the President will veto it."
The president was seen to use his veto power for the first time in office today after the house passed a bipartisan bill cutting certain benefits from employees of the United States Post Office.
Because Congress cannot override it. The Constitution provides that a President has ten days (Sundays excepted) in which to either sign or veto a bill. Otherwise, it becomes law without his signature "unless the adjournement of Congress prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law". This is to prevent Congress from evading the Presidential veto by passing a bill and than immediately adjourning, so that the President could not return the bill with a veto message. Accordingly, in the last ten days of a Congressional session, a a President may kill a bill without needing to veto it, simply by leaving it unsigned unil Congress adjourns. This is a "pocket veto".