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    Veto (redirect from Veto override)
    vote of the House and Senate can override a presidential veto. Some vetoes, however, are absolute and cannot be overridden. For example, in the United Nations...
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  • work week. Congress overrode two of Carter's vetoes. Not since 1952 had a Congress controlled by the president's own party overridden a veto. On June 5...
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  • verbs. ride – rode – ridden outride – outrode – outridden overrideoverrodeoverridden Strong, class 1 ring – rang – rung By analogy with strong,...
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    bills. Although controversial, none of these vetoes were overridden. Congress first overrode a presidential veto on March 3, 1845, during the presidency...
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    General Assembly overrode his veto. In total, during his first two years in office, Cooper vetoed 28 bills, 23 of which were overridden by the legislature...
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    perform abortions in the state. The General Assembly overrode his veto the next day. Despite the override, Hogan withheld funding for training new abortion...
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    "slave-labor bill." Despite Truman's all-out effort to prevent a veto override, Congress overrode his veto with considerable Democratic support, including 106...
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    Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan's veto, the first override of a presidential foreign-policy veto in the 20th century...
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    and only two of these were overridden. However, in 1869 governor John M. Palmer vetoed 72 bills, and the legislature overrode 17 of these vetoes. This resulted...
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    religious institutions in our society." On March 22, 1988, the Senate overrode Reagan's veto by a vote of 73–24 (52–0 in the Senate Democratic Caucus...
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    President Richard Nixon. By a two-thirds vote in each house, Congress overrode the veto and enacted the joint resolution into law on November 7, 1973...
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    Failed SB 2898 Passed 39–8 Passed 20–4 Vetoed Law Overrode 36–3 Overrode 20–4 Overridden Illinois 21 2007–08 HB 858 Passed 65–50 Died in committee — Failed...
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  • Arkansas by Governor Mike Beebe, but, on March 6, 2013, his veto was overridden by the Arkansas House of Representatives. A federal judge issued a temporary...
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    Southern actions. Johnson vetoed their bills, and Congressional Republicans overrode him, setting a pattern for the remainder of his presidency. Johnson opposed...
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    repository. The act allowed Nevada to override this designation, which it did in April 2002. Congress overrode Nevada's veto in July 2002. Nevada appealed...
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  • Senate overrode the veto by a 23–5 vote and the House overrode it 100–49, the first time since 1990 that a Vermont governor's veto was overridden. Six of...
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    a bill to abolish capital punishment in Nebraska, but the legislature overrode his veto. In 2016, Ricketts spent part of his family fortune to finance...
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    obligations. In February 2024, the village board of trustees, in a 4–2 vote, overrode Henyard's veto of their budget for the 2024–25 fiscal year, which included...
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    the margins by which the bill was passed, a Senate override also occurred; so the Congress overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law (Pub...
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    Senate overrode the veto by a 23–5 vote and the House overrode it 100–49, the first time since 1990 that a Vermont governor's veto was overridden. Six of...
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