Roosevelt 9 79th—82nd Harry S. Truman 70 12 83rd—86th Dwight D. Eisenhower 73 2 87th—88th John F. Kennedy 12 9 Johnson 16 14 Nixon 26 17 43 7 93rd—94th Gerald R. Bush 1 29 15 44 1 rd—th William J. Clinton 2 36 1 37 2 th—th George W. Bush 3 Obama 4 Trump Bush withheld his signature from two measures during intrasession recess periods H. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email. Override Veto: Congress Versus the President. Think Further. Why do you think the Framers of the Constitution required a two-thirds majority of the House and the Senate to override a presidential veto?
Is there anything about the veto process that you would change? Does the veto system help sustain the system of checks and balances, or does it grant too much power to the President? Explain your answer. Teacher Resources. Download Lesson Plan. Download Worksheet. View On EdPuzzle. Sign up for our educators newsletter to learn about new content! Sign Up. Get updated about new videos! On rare occasions, a president may choose to veto - or reject - legislation because of some policy disagreement.
Lawmakers can override a presidential veto and enact bills into law by mustering two-thirds of votes in both chambers of Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful congressional Democrat, said Mr Trump's veto was "an act of staggering recklessness that harms our troops, endangers our security and undermines the will of the bipartisan Congress".
Ahead of Wednesday's veto, some of the outgoing president's advisers had cautioned him against rejecting the bill. Mr Trump has previously vetoed eight bills, vetoes which were all upheld with support from his fellow Republicans in Congress. He is due to leave office on 20 January, when he will be replaced by Democrat Joe Biden.
Mr Trump called the 4,page act, which has been nearly a year in the making, a "gift to China and Russia". Mr Trump also said the bill's measures to limit bringing troops home was "bad policy" and "unconstitutional". Once a president has sent a bill back to Congress, he cannot change his mind and ask for it back. Ulysses S. Grant tried to do this twice during his presidency, but Congress refused to comply. In this case, the bill will not become law, and Congress must begin the process all over again if it wants to revive the legislation.
The pocket veto is an absolute veto, which Congress cannot override. In the early s, after both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford attempted to use the pocket veto during brief adjournments during a congressional session, the U.
Court of Appeals for Washington , D. Congress can override a regular presidential veto with a two-thirds vote of those present in both the House and the Senate. As of , presidents had vetoed more than 2, bills, and Congress had overridden less than 5 percent of those vetoes. The Constitution does not give the president the ability to reject parts of a bill and approve the remainder—or line-item veto power—which most state governors have.
Since the s, more than amendments have been proposed to change this, but none have been passed. In , Congress passed a law giving the president the line-item veto, but the Supreme Court later ruled it unconstitutional on the grounds that it gave the president more power than the Constitution allowed.
For that reason, the majority of vetoes before were on constitutional grounds. Then came Andrew Jackson. Only the fourth president to use the veto power, he openly declared he was vetoing bills based on political, rather than constitutional grounds.
Since the Civil War , most presidents have not vetoed bills on constitutional grounds, but because they considered the legislation unjust or simply unwise. In , George Washington exercised the presidential veto power for the first time ; he would use the veto only twice during his presidency, and was never overridden.
Perhaps unsurprisingly—given the length of time he spent in office—President Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed the most bills of any president in history, with
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