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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/08/2007 : 10:25:27
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It's called the Water Resources Development Act. Bush vetoed it last week, and now the Senate has overridden his veto. The House of Representatives already over-rode it on Tuesday. That's the first time a Bush veto has ever been defeated.
I am hoping this will make overriding Bush's habitual vetoing easier. (No story yet to link to. I just now watched the vote live.)
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/08/2007 10:26:12
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 12:40:12 [Permalink]
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So this makes one out of four Bush vetoes that have been overridden, a rate of 25%. The national average among all vetoes is 4.2% (2,554 vetoes with 107 overrides).
Andrew Johnson had a rate of 51.7% (29 vetoes, 15 overrides).
Gerald Ford had a rate of 18.2% (66 vetoes, 12 overrides).
So currently, Bush has landed the #2 slot on the "Most Overriden Vetoes" leaderboard.
And just think: at this time yesterday, Bush was sharing the extreme opposite end of the leaderboard with Washington, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Buchanan, Lincoln, McKinley, Harding, Kennedy and LBJ, all of whom issued vetoes but had none overriden. (Not counting the guys who didn't issue any vetoes to be overriden: John Adams, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore and Garfield). |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 13:23:08 [Permalink]
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Sounds like a "small sample" problem, Dave. Hopefully, there'll be more data in the next year or so.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 14:26:17 [Permalink]
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| Compared to the amount of legislation being passed, Bush is a serious under-performer when it comes to vetoes. Clinton had 37 of them, and Bush the elder had 44 (in just one term!). |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 14:27:27 [Permalink]
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Its not like Bush has issued many vetoes.
The problem is that Bush had full control over congress until '06. They just didn't send him anything that he would have vetoed.
It symptomatic of a bigger problem, the blurring of the lines around ecexutive power.
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Senate votes first Bush veto override
