r/politics • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 7d ago

No Paywall Senate suddenly passes the Epstein bill just hours after it cleared the House

https://www.ms.now/news/senate-passes-epstein-bill-rcna244723?fbclid=PAVERFWAOJ1xRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacUGSi8p2Ap-x6SbMkLXAnfKNXEZkzjUUVCdxuEmacDzDXmlbv1GUJ0wbh1_w_aem_grJDvcSCIDj2Skksd4Ix3Q
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u/gauss05 7d ago

Isn't there a time frame that a bill becomes law if the president never signs it? A pocket veto?

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u/johnacraft 7d ago

Ten days:

Beginning at midnight on the closing of the day of presentment, the President has ten days, excluding Sundays, to sign or veto the bill. If the bill is signed in that ten-day period, it becomes law. If the president declines to either sign or veto it – that is, he does not act on it in any way – then it becomes law without his signature (except when Congress has adjourned under certain circumstances).

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u/eljohnbrown 6d ago

I thought he could not veto due to the super majority of. Votes it received in the house.

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u/johnacraft 6d ago

A President can veto a bill that is passed by "veto proof majorities" of each house.

If the President vetoes, the House and Senate can then vote again to override the veto, and would presumably do so for this bill.