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Pocket veto   /pˈɑkət vˈitoʊ/   Listen
Pocket veto

noun
1.
Indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it.





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"Pocket veto" Quotes from Famous Books



... neither signs nor returns the measure within ten days, it automatically becomes law. However, measures reaching the President during the last ten days of the congressional session become law only if signed by him. His failure to sign a bill reaching him under these circumstances constitutes a "pocket veto." ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... the phrase commonly used to describe the President's course when he permits a bill which reaches him within the last ten days of the session, to die without action on his part. It is frequently termed the "pocket veto."] ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine


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