A pocket veto can only be used when Congress adjourns for the session within ten days of the bill being submitted to the president. This means that the president can simply not sign the bill, and it will not become law. Because Congress has adjourned, they cannot override the veto, and the bill cannot be reintroduced in the next session.

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A Pocket Veto

Question 37

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A pocket veto

A) can be used by a president only once during a term in office, although the veto can be used twice if the president serves two terms.
B) can only be used when Congress adjourns for the session within ten days of the bill being submitted to the president.
C) means that the legislation cannot be reintroduced in the next Congress.
D) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1936.
E) is a veto in which the president does not send a veto message back to Congress.

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