Posted on 08/19/2002 7:19:41 PM PDT by Willie Green
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President | Congresses |
Regular Vetoes
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Pocket Vetoes
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Total Vetoes
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Vetoes
Overridden |
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George Washington | 1st- 4th |
2
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.....
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2
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.....
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John Adams |
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5th-6th |
.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Thomas Jefferson | 7th-10th |
|
.....
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.....
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.....
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|
.....
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James Madison | 11th-14th |
5
|
2
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7
|
.....
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James Monroe | 15th-18th |
1
|
|
.....
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1
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.....
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John Quincy Adams | 19th-20th |
.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Andrew Jackson |
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21st-24th |
5
|
7
|
12
|
.....
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Martin Van Buren | 25th-26th |
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.....
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1
|
1
|
|
.....
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William Henry Harrison | 27th |
.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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John Tyler | 27th-28th |
6
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|
4
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10
|
1
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James K. Polk | 29th-30th |
2
|
1
|
3
|
.....
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Zachary Taylor |
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31st |
.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Millard Fillmore | 31st-32nd |
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.....
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.....
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.....
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|
.....
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Franklin Pierce | 33rd-34th |
9
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.....
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9
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5
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James Buchanan | 35th-36th |
4
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3
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7
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.....
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Abraham Lincoln | 37th-39th |
2
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5
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7
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.....
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Andrew Johnson |
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39th-40th |
21
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8
|
29
|
15
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Ulysses S. Grant | 41st-44th |
|
45
|
48
|
93
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|
4
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Rutherford B. Hayes | 45th-46th |
12
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1
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13
|
1
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James A. Garfield | 47th |
.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Chester A. Arthur | 47th-48th |
4
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8
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12
|
1
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Grover Cleveland |
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49th-50th |
304
|
110
|
414
|
2
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Benjamin Harrison | 51st-52nd |
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19
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25
|
44
|
|
1
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Grover Cleveland | 53rd-54th |
42
|
128
|
170
|
5
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William McKinley | 55th-57th |
6
|
|
36
|
42
|
.....
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Theodore Roosevelt | 57th-60th |
42
|
40
|
82
|
1
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William H. Taft |
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61st-62nd |
30
|
9
|
39
|
1
|
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Woodrow Wilson | 63rd-66th |
|
33
|
11
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44
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|
6
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Warren G. Harding | 67th |
5
|
1
|
6
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.....
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Calvin Coolidge | 68th-70th |
20
|
|
30
|
50
|
4
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Herbert C. Hoover | 71st-72nd |
21
|
16
|
37
|
3
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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73rd-79th |
372
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263
|
635
|
9
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Harry S. Truman | 79th-82nd |
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180
|
70
|
250
|
|
12
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | 83rd-86th |
73
|
108
|
181
|
2
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John F. Kennedy | 87th-88th |
12
|
|
9
|
21
|
.....
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 88th-90st |
16
|
14
|
30
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.....
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Richard M. Nixon |
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91st-93rd |
26
|
17
|
43
|
7
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Gerald R. Ford | 93rd-94th |
|
48
|
18
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66
|
|
12
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James Earl Carter | 95th-96th |
13
|
18
|
31
|
2
|
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Ronald Reagan |
97th-100th |
39
|
|
39
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78
|
9
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George Bush* | 101th-102nd |
29
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15
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44
|
1
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William J. Clinton |
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103rd-106th |
37
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1
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38
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2
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George W. Bush | 107th |
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Total
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1484
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1066
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2551
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106
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I posted the above chart on another thread, and FReeper "Phantom Lord" said "I would like to see a similar chart that shows how many bills congress sent to the presidents desks for their signature and got it."
I did some searching on the Web, and I'm afraid I just couldn't come up with any information to answer this question. It really made me curious: How many bills DOES Congress pass in a typical session?
My guess is that it must be some mind-boggling number that they want to keep hushed-up out of sheer embarrassment.
(Dang! I don't know why the table messed-up
I used the same cut & paste HTML I used in the other thread and it came out OK.)
Bttt...
legally, or illegally?
I think the number was something like 4000, although that figure may represent both laws passed and new Federal regulations imposed by bureaucrat agencies.
I suspect that most of what gets put into place today is done by the bureaucrats through regulations.
But it is a question worth finding the answer too. How many bills does congress send to the president a year?
If the answer is more than "0", it's one to many
Except for constitutional mandated duties, of course
"Of 44,195 bills passed by Congress in over 200 years, only 3,163 were passed in its first 50 years and 41 percent were passed in the last 50 years. "
Phantom Lord and I aren't talking about the regulations imposed by the various bureacratic agencies. Just the number of Bills passed by Congress and sent to the President for signing. It would be helpful for "completing" the table and aid in calculating what percentage of the bills are vetoed.
I suppose if one wanted to get fanatical about data, one could also include a column for all the bills that are introduced in Congress. But a lot of bills die in committee, or aren't passed, or don't make it to the President for some other reason.
But the number of bills that the President actually signs seems like a fairly simple, straightforward question.
There were 4313 new regulations in 2000, but only 4132 in 2001. We are making tremendous progress!
No wonder they make this info hard to find!
I know I'll sleep better tonight knowing someone is looking out for my safety.
Well that would be an average of about 221 per year.
The link provided by Senator Pardek seems to indicate a recent range of roughly 150 to 350 per year. (300 to 700 per 2-year Congressional session.)
I guess that gets us in the ballpark, anyway.
Actually, I'm surprised the numbers are that low.
I suppose that's because they often lump a lot of different things together in one bill.
Can't just go by the bill's title to know what it really does.
Thanks for the help!!!
These are the ones signed by the president, and not vetoed or pocket vetoed.
I'd like to see three Amendments ratified:
1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the US Constitution is repealed.
2. The seventeenth article of amendment to the US Constitution is repealed.
3. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor forbidden by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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