To: AppyPappy
You have got to be kidding... He knows that the congress have enough votes to overide his veto and for this very same LAME reason, he will not veto...
73 posted on
03/20/2002 1:11:26 PM PST by
skcomp
To: skcomp
I takes 2/3 in both chambers to override a veto. 60 doesn't do it.
78 posted on
03/20/2002 1:13:09 PM PST by
Wphile
To: skcomp
He knows that the congress have enough votes to overide his veto and for this very same LAME reason, he will not veto... 60 only breaks a filibuster, it doesn't override a veto.
To: skcomp
He knows that the congress have enough votes to overide his veto In what kind of math is 60-40 a two-thirds majority?
83 posted on
03/20/2002 1:15:46 PM PST by
Sloth
To: skcomp
His veto could be easily sustained in either chamber. Only takes 34 in the Senate to sustain the veto.
122 posted on
03/20/2002 1:33:06 PM PST by
mwl1
To: skcomp
I agree with you that I don't think he'll veto the bill and instead sign it. However I disagree with your reasoning that there are enough votes to over ride a veto .... You need 2/3rds in both houses... That means you need 7 more senators to vote to over ride... The House passed the legislation on a vote of 240-189. It takes 292 in the House if all 435 are voting in order to over ride. So that means another 52 Congress critters to vote for the over ride... Now do you think there are 52 Representatives and 7 Senators that will swap sides and vote to over ride? I don't.
182 posted on
03/20/2002 2:31:08 PM PST by
deport
To: skcomp
Congress does NOT have the votes, to override a veto. If that were the only problem, the President would veto and that would be the end of that. The problem is more difficult than that. Billybob
To: skcomp
He knows that the congress have enough votes to overide his veto Only if they can scrape up 7 more votes in the Senate, at minimum. It takes 2/3 to overide a veto. That's 67 Senators. I've forgotten what the vote was in the House.
We need to blame both parties for this travesty. The House is still controled by the Republicans, many of them having been elected in the '94 Elections which won control of the House for their party, due to the support of gunowners and conservatives. Then they stab us in the back. Isn't there some saying about not bringing a knife to a gunfight?
295 posted on
03/20/2002 4:56:22 PM PST by
El Gato
To: skcomp
BS, they don't have the votes to over-ride. But it doesn't matter because Bush doesn't have the balls to veto it.
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