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.
For the president the advantage would be that pocket vetoes cannot be overridden by congress. The pocket vetoed bill simply disappears until it is started again in another session of congress. A normal veto can be overridden but only about 4% have been.
The so-called "pocket veto" is a seldom used power of US presidents. When it has been used it has left a trail of "tendencies". With that said, over 84% of pocket vetoes have come when congress has been adjourned for a month or more. Typically it's used during the Summer, when the congress is often away from Washington DC for a month or more. One recorded use of a pocket veto within a nine day adjournment, came in 1964 with President Johnson.
per the US Constitution, the President can recommend laws to be acted upon by the Congress, and he has the power to veto legislation made by the Congress that he disagrees with
The bill automatically dies. For a president to allow that to happen is known as a pocket veto.
John Tyler was the first to have a veto overridden.
what circumstances might the president use a pocket veto
The veto and the pocket veto are two ways that the _____ can reject a bill
Sign it, veto it, do a pocket veto.
Pocket veto
pocket veto
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.
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.
That would be a 'Pocket' veto. The president/governor places it in the pocket and forgets about it.
With a Veto or a Pocket Veto.
President Andrew Jackson was a prolific user of the pocket veto. He used it seven times in his two terms as president.
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.
It is called a "pocket veto". Essentially meaning the President put it in his pocket and ignored it.