Posted on 12/30/2009 9:35:46 PM PST by BP2
HONOLULU (AP) -- President Barack Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, a stopgap spending bill that never had to take effect.
The White House on Wednesday said Obama exercised his right to send back to the Capitol a temporary appropriations bill that lawmakers passed in case a winter storm about two weeks ago would have prevented them from approving a final measure to fund the Pentagon next year. The Dec. 19 blizzard didn't keep them away from the Capitol and they approved the $626 billion defense spending bill before the previous budget expired.
The White House described the move as a technicality that the president took out of an abundance of caution, and that it was his first veto.
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First veto after almost 50 weeks in office.
In all fairness, he has a Communist Congress.
I would like him to veto 98% of what this Congress is doing please....
“Obama exercised his right to “
No he didn’t. He exercised his AUTHORITY as President.
Libs bandy the word “right” about so much it has no meaning in their mouths.
| Here's a partial list: Crush of earmarks in defense bill gives yet another lesson in horse-trading ... there are 97 pages listing nearly 1,000 congressional earmarks in the 543-page report by the House-Senate conferees on the $626 billion defense appropriations bill signed by President Obama this month. |
Perfect. A worthless, pointless pResident vetoing worthless legislation.
That's so very true that I must reiterate it.
Jack Squat POTUS is an utter joke.
So 2 1/2 years from now when he’s campaigning again he’ll talk far and wide of vetoing a spending bill with 1000 earmarks in it, how he’s so fiscally responsible.
Too bad he’ll forget to mention the fact that it was invalid before it got to his desk anyway.
A Veto?
I thought the Executive Branch lost Veto Power sometime around 1993.
“Abundance of caution” is horsepucky. The bill would have died without his signature.
No, he’ll be milking this somehow, holding it up as a beacon of fiscal prudence or something. Just watch.
No, In 1996 the Republican Congress gave Clinton the “Line Item Veto,” but SCOTUS took it away judging it unconstitutional two years later.
First veto after almost 50 weeks in office.
Wasn’t it about five years for the previous administration?
Actually, the point was the neither of the two previous presidents used their veto power all that much.
Something that meaningless I would have just pocket vetoed rather than even waste my time on it.
Well at least he knows where his veto pen is. How long did it take for W to find his?
I remember reading about all the earmarks in this bill. The Democrats (and the rest of Congress) figure if they can put it under the heading of “Defense” no one can complain about it... Just imagine how well-equipped our military would be if the whole 600+ billion actually went to DEFENSE, and not pork-barrel projects that have NOTHING to do with protecting this nation or its people. Incredibly disgraceful and immoral if you ask me...
President Barack Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, a stopgap spending bill that never had to take effect.
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