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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Thomas Jefferson | 7th-10th |
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
|
.....
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James Madison | 11th-14th |
5
|
2
|
7
|
.....
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||
James Monroe | 15th-18th |
1
|
|
.....
|
1
|
.....
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John Quincy Adams | 19th-20th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
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Andrew Jackson |
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21st-24th |
5
|
7
|
12
|
.....
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Martin Van Buren | 25th-26th |
|
.....
|
1
|
1
|
|
.....
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William Henry Harrison | 27th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
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John Tyler | 27th-28th |
6
|
|
4
|
10
|
1
|
|
James K. Polk | 29th-30th |
2
|
1
|
3
|
.....
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Zachary Taylor |
|
31st |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
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Millard Fillmore | 31st-32nd |
|
.....
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.....
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.....
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|
.....
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Franklin Pierce | 33rd-34th |
9
|
.....
|
9
|
5
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James Buchanan | 35th-36th |
4
|
|
3
|
7
|
.....
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Abraham Lincoln | 37th-39th |
2
|
5
|
7
|
.....
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Andrew Johnson |
|
39th-40th |
21
|
8
|
29
|
15
|
|
Ulysses S. Grant | 41st-44th |
|
45
|
48
|
93
|
|
4
|
Rutherford B. Hayes | 45th-46th |
12
|
1
|
13
|
1
|
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James A. Garfield | 47th |
.....
|
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
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Chester A. Arthur | 47th-48th |
4
|
8
|
12
|
1
|
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Grover Cleveland |
|
49th-50th |
304
|
110
|
414
|
2
|
|
Benjamin Harrison | 51st-52nd |
|
19
|
25
|
44
|
|
1
|
Grover Cleveland | 53rd-54th |
42
|
128
|
170
|
5
|
||
William McKinley | 55th-57th |
6
|
|
36
|
42
|
.....
|
|
Theodore Roosevelt | 57th-60th |
42
|
40
|
82
|
1
|
||
William H. Taft |
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61st-62nd |
30
|
9
|
39
|
1
|
|
Woodrow Wilson | 63rd-66th |
|
33
|
11
|
44
|
|
6
|
Warren G. Harding | 67th |
5
|
1
|
6
|
.....
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Calvin Coolidge | 68th-70th |
20
|
|
30
|
50
|
4
|
|
Herbert C. Hoover | 71st-72nd |
21
|
16
|
37
|
3
|
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
73rd-79th |
372
|
263
|
635
|
9
|
|
Harry S. Truman | 79th-82nd |
|
180
|
70
|
250
|
|
12
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 83rd-86th |
73
|
108
|
181
|
2
|
||
John F. Kennedy | 87th-88th |
12
|
|
9
|
21
|
.....
|
|
Lyndon B. Johnson | 88th-90st |
16
|
14
|
30
|
.....
|
||
Richard M. Nixon |
|
91st-93rd |
26
|
17
|
43
|
7
|
|
Gerald R. Ford | 93rd-94th |
|
48
|
18
|
66
|
|
12
|
James Earl Carter | 95th-96th |
13
|
18
|
31
|
2
|
||
Ronald Reagan |
97th-100th |
39
|
|
39
|
78
|
9
|
|
George Bush* | 101th-102nd |
29
|
15
|
44
|
1
|
||
William J. Clinton |
|
103rd-106th |
37
|
1
|
38
|
2
|
|
George W. Bush | 107th |
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
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.....
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Total
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............
|
1484
|
1066
|
2551
|
106
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Go to Thomas for some good information about Congress.
Yeah, but be careful not to take the Senator too seriously.
Gotta keep him honest, just like the rest of us. ;^)
BTW, thank-you for your information.
It had never occurred to me that 'private laws' were passed as well!
Who is Bob Davis and why does he need his own Post Office?
You'll love the details on the one that was passed last year, Willie!
I bet the people of St. Ignace won't even notice the difference.
They'll walk past the plaque daily without even seeing it.
And simply call the building the same thing they always have: "The Post Office".
He was a man of Letters, I understand.
LOTS of Letters.
Actually, upon reflection and having the opportunity to view a few of these "private laws", I have no problem with them despite the potential for abuse and incidents of "special favors". At least they're short, straightforward, and easy to understand.
I suppose it's more those humongous "omnibus" bills that we have to worry about. They bury and camoflage all kinds of nefarious, sleezy stuff in those with wording that the Average Joe has absolutely no hope of understanding.
The Public Law numbers for the two year (two session) Congresses over the past decade show that each Congress enacted between 330 and 580 Public Laws, so divide that in half to produce an average for a session.
but this statistic doesn't reflect the very large number of proposals that Congress considers, tries to tune up, and finally rejects.
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