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"pocket veto"
A Pocket Veto
the President takes no action on a bill and Congress adjourns
Pocket Veto! (novaNet)
Adjourn-means that the meeting is postpone and hold off, put off.
If the President does not sign a bill, it still becomes the law in ten days unless Congress adjourns during this 10-day period. If Congress adjourns and the President does not sign it, it dies and does not become law.
That is called a "pocket veto."
This is called a pocket veto by the President. He figuratively puts the bill away in his pocket. He can only do this if he has the bill for less that 10 days when Congress adjourns . If he gets the bill more than 10 days before Congress adjourns, it becomes law even if he does not sign it unless he vetoes it and so informs Congress.
A pocket veto is the process of dropping a bill if congress adjourns. This process occurs if a bill sits on a president's desk for more than 10 days without being signed and is not directly passed or vetoed by the president.
A pocket veto will be possible for the president only if Congress adjourns before the president has ten days to sign or veto the bill. If Congress adjourns during this period, the bill does not become law and is effectively vetoed.