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- The Presentment Clause (Article I, Section 7, Clauses 2 and 3) of the United States Constitution outlines federal legislative procedure by which bills originating in Congress become federal law in the United States.
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The Presentment Clause (Article I, Section 7, Clauses 2 and 3) of the United States Constitution outlines federal legislative procedure by which bills originating in Congress become federal law in the United States.
Presentment Clause. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections ...
Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution creates certain rules to govern how Congress makes law. Its first Clause—known as the Origination Clause—requires all bills for raising revenue to originate in the House of Representatives. The second—the Presentment Clause—requires all laws to be presented to the President for his signature or veto.
The Presentment Clause is commonly viewed as a provision that protects the President’s veto power, an association reinforced by the clause’s name. Yet, the...
Article I, Section 7, Clause 3 requires presentment to the President of orders, resolutions, and votes approved by both houses of Congress. See ArtI.S7.C3.1 Presentation of Senate or House Resolutions. The Supreme Court has held that if the President wishes to approve a bill, the Presentment Clause only requires him to sign it. He need not ...
The Presentment Clause allows the President to veto legislation, preventing it from taking effect unless two thirds of both the House and Senate vote to override the veto. The Supreme Court has held that the two-thirds vote of each Chamber required to pass a bill over a veto refers to two-thirds of a quorum. 1.
Under the Presentment Clause, the President must sign or veto an entire bill. For more than a century, Presidents sought authority to veto certain line items in an appropriations bill while otherwise approving the legislation.
