Congress and the President II: After Congress Passes a Bill

Delegation language:  a very recent example

• Administrative Rules
• Executive orders
• Executive Actions (see below)
• US v. Texas
• The position of The Donald
• Signing statements

Vetoes

Pocket vetoes and "protective return pocket vetoes" (Davidson 297)

Newt Gingrich, Lessons Learned the Hard Way (1998):

We had not only failed to take into account the ability of the Senate to delay us and obstruct us, but we had much too cavalierly underrated the power of the President, even a President who had lost his legislative majority and was in a certain amount of trouble for other reasons. I am speaking of the power of the veto. Even if you pass something through both the House and the Senate, there is that presidential pen. How could we have forgotten that? For me especially it was inexcusable, because when I was Republican whip during the Bush Administration one of my duties had been precisely to help sustain presidential vetoes.

Item Veto