Legislative veto in the United States
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Legislative veto in the United States
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The legislative veto was a feature of dozens of statutes enacted by the United States federal government between approximately 1930 and 1980, until held unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in INS v. Chadha (1983). It is a provision whereby Congress passes a statute granting authority to the President and reserving for itself the ability to override, through simple majority vote, individual actions taken by the President pursuant to that authority. It has also been widely used by state gov
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Defunct feature of some U.S. laws which allowed Congress to override presidential actions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_veto_in_the_United_States
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2023-03-27T22:53:50Z
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