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The word veto does not appear in the United States Constitution, but Article I requires every bill, order, resolution or other act of legislation by the Congress of the United States to be presented to the President of the United States for his approval.
[edit] Summary of vetoes
[edit] Vetoes cast
The following is an incomplete list of the dates and bills of each veto for each president:
- Two vetoes.
- April 5, 1792: Vetoed the Apportionment Bill on constitutional grounds.[1]
- February 28, 1797: vetoed A Bill to alter and amend an Act entitled, "An Act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States" on the advice of Secretary of War James McHenry.[2]
- No vetoes
- No vetoes
- Five vetoes, all on constitutional grounds
- An act incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, vetoed February 21, 1811. The bill provided for the incorporation of an Episcopal church in Alexandria into the District of Columbia. Madison vetoed it on the ground that it violated the Establishment Clause.[3]
- An act for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory, vetoed February 28, 1811. The bill granting public lands to a Baptist church in the Mississippi Territory. Madison vetoed it on the ground that it violated the Establishment Clause.[4]
- The Bonus Bill (An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements, and which sets apart and pledges funds for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses to facilitate, promote, and give security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions for the common defense), vetoed March 3, 1817. The bill was sponsored by John C. Calhoun and provided for internal improvements using surplus funds from the Second Bank of the United States. Madison vetoed on constitutional grounds.[5]
- One veto
- The Cumberland Road Bill (An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road), vetoed May 4, 1822. Monroe wrote in his veto message that " A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement," which he believed was unconstitutional.[6]
- No vetoes.
- Five vetoes
- Maysville Road veto
- Second Bank of the United States Re-Charter
- Act of Congress Overruling Jackson's Specie Circular (pocket veto)
- No vetoes
- Six vetoes
- To incorporate the subscribers to the Fiscal Bank of the United States. Vetoed August 16, 1841.
- Fiscal Corporation Bill. To provide for the better collection, safekeeping, and disbursement of the public revenue, by means of a corporation to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of the United States. Vetoed September 9, 1841.
- To provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports. Vetoed August 9, 1842.
- To extend for a limited period the present laws for laying and collecting duties on imports. Vetoed June 29, 1842.
- Making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers. Vetoed June 11, 1844.
- Relating to revenue cutters and steamers. Vetoed February 20, 1845. Veto Overridden. The Senate overrode the veto on March 3, 1845 by a vote of 41 yeas to 1 nay. The House overrode the veto on March 3, 1845 by a vote of 127 yeas to 30 nays.
- Two vetoes
- No vetoes
- No vetoes
- No vetoes. Garfield was the last President, so far, to have made no vetoes. He was only President, however, for 6½ months.
82 vetoes.
- May 11, 1932 - Vetoed a bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 and for other purposes. The House of Representatives sustained the veto.
635 vetoes
- January 4, 1974 - Pocket-vetoed a bill to provide federal funds for local purchases of buses for mass transportation.
- March 6, 1974 - Vetoed an emergency energy bill.
- 1981: Pocket-vetoed changes to federal bankruptcy law.
- 1984: Vetoed a bill allowing a water resources research program to continue. It was overridden.
- 1984: Vetoed a bill to increase funds for public broadcasting and establish public telecommunications facilities. Later that year he used a pocket veto to stop another attempt to increase public broadcasting funding.
- 1985: Vetoed funding for famine relief in Africa.
- 1985: Vetoed changes to the laws authorizing the National Institutes of Health. It was overridden.
- 1986: Vetoed a bill prohibiting the sale of defense materials and services to Saudi Arabia. It was sustained by one vote.
- 1986: Vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a bill imposing economic sanctions against South Africa. It was overridden.
- 1986: Pocket-vetoed a bill to stop the Clean Water Act from being amended.
- 1987: Vetoed changes to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. It was overridden.
- 1987: Vetoed a bill providing funding for highway construction. It was overridden.
- 1988: Vetoed changes to restore the scope of various civil rights laws. It was overridden.
- 1988: Pocket-vetoed a bill to establish a nutrition monitoring program.
- 1988: Used the pocket veto on a bill reinstating laws on advertising during children's television.
44 vetoes in total
- 1989: Vetoed an increase in the minimum wage.
- October 22, 1990 - Vetoed S. 2104 which served "To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to restore and strengthen civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment."[7]
- June 29, 1990 - Vetoed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1990.
- 1991: Vetoed a spending bill for the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education departments because of language on funding abortions.
- 1992: Vetoed a campaign finance bill.
- 1992: Vetoed another bill to make employers provide family medical leaves.
- 1992: Vetoed a bill on cable television competition. It was overridden.
- 1995: Vetoed a bill on private securities litigation. Congress overrode the veto.
- 1996: Vetoed a welfare overhaul bill.
- 1996: Vetoed a bill to prohibit partial-birth abortions.
- 1997: Vetoed another attempt to ban partial-birth abortion.
- 1997: Vetoed a bill to restore military spending that he had removed using a line-item veto. Congress overrode the veto.
- 2000: Vetoed a bill to abolish federal inheritance taxes.
- 2000: Pocket-vetoed a bill to change bankruptcy laws.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ The Papers of George Washington
- ^ The Papers of George Washington
- ^ Library of CongressSunnetworks.net
- ^ Library of CongressSunnetworks.net
- ^ Virginia.edu
- ^ Library of Congress
- ^ U.S. Congress, Senate, Library, Presidential Vetoes, 1989–2000. Compiled by the Senate Library under the direction of Jeri Thomson, Secretary of the Senate, by Zoe Davis, S. Pub. 107–10 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2001.(PDF)
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