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This depends on the laws of each country; the common alternative is that if the president takes no action a bill automatically becomes law. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Barbados">Barbados</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Barbados"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Similar to India [see <a href="#India">India</a> below], section 58 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Barbados" title="Constitution of Barbados">Constitution of Barbados</a>, as amended by the Constitution Amendment Act 2021 (which transitioned the country from a <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" title="Commonwealth realm">Commonwealth realm</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">parliamentary republic</a> with its own head of state) states that the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Barbados" title="President of Barbados">President</a> shall declare his assent to a bill passed by Parliament or withhold his assent. However, much like in India, the Barbadian Constitution does not give a specific time frame for presidential action on a bill sent by the Parliament. Thus, by indefinitely postponing action on a bill, and not sending it back to Parliament, the president could effectively veto it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Finland">Finland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Finland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/President_of_Finland" title="President of Finland">President of Finland</a> has the power to pocket-veto bills passed by the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Finland" title="Parliament of Finland">parliament</a>; however, such vetoes are temporary in effect.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="India">India</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Article 111 of the Indian constitution states that the <a href="/wiki/President_of_India" title="President of India">President</a> shall declare his assent to a bill passed by both houses of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_India" title="Parliament of India">Parliament</a> or withhold his assent, provided that may he return the bill to Parliament for reconsideration.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the President returns the bill, and Parliament passes it once again, with or without any amendments, the President cannot withhold his assent. However, the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_India" title="Constitution of India">Indian Constitution</a> does not give a specific time frame for presidential action on a bill sent by the Parliament. Thus, by indefinitely postponing action on a bill, and not sending it back to Parliament, the president effectively vetoes it.<sup id="cite_ref-india_times_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-india_times-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-intro_india_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intro_india-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Zail_Singh" title="Zail Singh">Zail Singh</a>, the President of India from 1982 until 1987, exercised a pocket veto to prevent the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill from becoming law.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Normally if a president does not sign a bill, it becomes law after ten days as if he had signed it. A pocket veto occurs when a bill fails to become law because the president does not sign it within the ten-day period and cannot return the bill to Congress because Congress is no longer in session. Article 1, Section 7 of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">U.S. Constitution</a> states: </p> <blockquote><p>If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a Law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a Law.</p></blockquote> <p>The Constitution limits the president's period for decision on whether to sign or return any legislation to ten days (not including Sundays) while the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> is in session. A return veto happens when the president sends a bill, along with their objections, back to the house of Congress from which it originated. Congress can override the veto by a two-thirds vote of both chambers, whereupon the bill becomes law. If Congress prevents the bill's return by adjourning during the 10-day period, and the president does not sign the bill, a "pocket veto" occurs and the bill does not become law. Congress can adjourn and designate an agent to receive veto messages and other communications so that a pocket veto cannot happen, an action Congresses have routinely taken for decades.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2025)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> If a bill is pocket vetoed while Congress is out of session, the only way for Congress to circumvent the pocket veto is to reintroduce the legislation as a new bill, pass it through both chambers, and present it to the President again for signature. <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a> became the first president to use the pocket veto in 1812.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (January 2025)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Of presidents throughout United States history, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an outstanding number of pocket vetoes, more than anyone before or after him. During his presidency from 1933 to 1945 Roosevelt had vetoed 635 bills, 263 of which were pocket vetoes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All presidents after him until George W. Bush had pocket vetoes while they were in office; the most after Roosevelt was Dwight D. Eisenhower who had 108. Since the George W. Bush presidency, no president has used the pocket veto. Ten presidents from founding to 1886 did not use this tactic.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Courts have never fully clarified when an adjournment by Congress would "prevent" the president from returning a vetoed bill. Some presidents have interpreted the Constitution to restrict the pocket veto to the <a href="/wiki/Adjournment_sine_die" title="Adjournment sine die">adjournment sine die</a> of Congress at the end of the second session of the two-year congressional term, while others interpreted it to allow intersession and intrasession pocket vetoes. In 1929, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> ruled in the <a href="/wiki/Pocket_Veto_Case" title="Pocket Veto Case">Pocket Veto Case</a> that a bill had to be returned to the chamber while it is in session and capable of work. While upholding President <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>'s pocket veto, the court said that the "determinative question is not whether it is a final adjournment of Congress or an interim adjournment but whether it is one that 'prevents' the President from returning the bill". In 1938, the Supreme Court reversed itself in part in <i><a href="/wiki/Wright_v._U.S." class="mw-redirect" title="Wright v. U.S.">Wright v. United States</a></i>, ruling that Congress could designate agents on its behalf to receive veto messages when it was not in session, saying that the Constitution "does not define what shall constitute a return of a bill or deny the use of appropriate agencies in effecting the return". A three-day recess of the Senate was considered a short enough time that the Senate could still act with "reasonable promptitude" on the veto. However, a five-month adjournment would be a long enough period to enable a pocket veto. Within those constraints, there still exists some ambiguity. Presidents have been reluctant to pursue disputed pocket vetoes to the Supreme Court for fear of an adverse ruling that would serve as a precedent in future cases.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (May 2016)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_W._Bush">George W. Bush</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: George W. Bush"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2007, President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> claimed that he had pocket vetoed <span class="nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/1585">H.R. 1585</a></span>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2008" title="National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008">National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> even though the House of Representatives had designated agents to receive presidential messages before adjourning.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill had been previously passed by veto-proof majorities in both the House and the Senate. If the president had chosen to veto the bill, he would have been required to return it to the chamber in which it originated, in this case the House of Representatives. The House then could have voted to override the veto, and the Senate could have done likewise. If each house had voted to override the veto, then the bill would have become law.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then-House Speaker <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> stated: "Congress vigorously rejects any claim that the president has the authority to pocket veto this legislation and will treat any bill returned to the Congress as open to an override vote."<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 1, 2008, <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Assistant_to_the_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Assistant to the President">Deputy Assistant to the President</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_House_Deputy_Press_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="White House Deputy Press Secretary">White House Deputy Press Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Scott_Stanzel" title="Scott Stanzel">Scott Stanzel</a> stated: "A pocket veto, as you know, is essentially putting it in your pocket and not taking any action whatsoever. And when Congress – the House is out of session – in this case it's our view that bill then would not become law."<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Louis Fisher, a constitutional scholar at the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> indicated: "The administration would be on weak grounds in court because they would be insisting on what the Framers decidedly rejected: an absolute veto."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By "absolute veto" Fisher was referring to the fact that a bill that has been pocket vetoed cannot have its veto overridden. Instead, the bill must be reintroduced into both houses of Congress, and again passed by both houses, an effort which can be very difficult to achieve. </p><p>In the end, the House of Representatives did not attempt to override the veto. Instead, in January 2008, the House effectively killed H.R. 1585 by referring the pocket veto message to the Armed Services Committee and passing <span class="nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/4986">H.R. 4986</a></span>, a bill nearly identical to H.R. 1585 but slightly modified to meet the President's objection, which subsequently became law.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This was not the first time that a president has attempted to pocket veto a bill despite the presence of agents to receive his veto message. Both <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> made similar attempts,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> used it against the <a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Davis_Bill" title="Wade–Davis Bill">Wade–Davis Bill</a> in 1864.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_legislatures">State legislatures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: State legislatures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Across the country, pocket veto powers are not uncommon in committees of <a href="/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)" title="State legislature (United States)">state legislatures</a>, which allows a committee to "kill" a bill, sometimes without even a public vote; in Colorado, the power was notably repealed in a citizen initiative constitutional amendment in 1988 driven by various reform groups.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When a committee refuses to vote a bill out of committee, a <a href="/wiki/Discharge_petition" title="Discharge petition">discharge petition</a> can be passed by the broader membership. The specifics vary from state to state; for example, in 2004, a report found that New York State places more restrictions than any other state legislature on motions to discharge a bill from a committee,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which led to subsequent reforms.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indiana">Indiana</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Indiana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After nearly a century of pocket vetoes, the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Supreme_Court" title="Indiana Supreme Court">Indiana Supreme Court</a> ruled pocket vetoes unconstitutional in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Governor <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Whitcomb" title="Edgar Whitcomb">Edgar Whitcomb</a> requested that the General Assembly pass an act repealing all laws that were enacted because of the Supreme Court decision, some of which were nearly a century old. The assembly complied with the request and passed a blanket repeal.<sup id="cite_ref-g405_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g405-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_use">Other use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because a pocket veto cannot be overridden, it is sometimes used to describe situations where either one person, or a small group, can override the will of a much larger group without consequence. For example, when the <a href="/wiki/California_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="California Supreme Court">California Supreme Court</a> was answering the <a href="/wiki/Certified_question" title="Certified question">certified question</a> of intervenor standing in the case of <i><a href="/wiki/Perry_v._Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Perry v. Brown">Perry v. Brown</a></i> (known as the <a href="/wiki/Proposition_8_(2008)" class="mw-redirect" title="Proposition 8 (2008)">Proposition 8</a> case), one of the justices expressed concern that denying appellate standing to initiative proponents would mean that the governor and state attorney general would "essentially get a 'pocket veto<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes" title="List of United States presidential vetoes">List of United States presidential vetoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recess_appointment" title="Recess appointment">Recess appointment</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pocket_veto&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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