Category:Pocket veto

Pocket veto.

Defn: the retention by the president of the united states of a bill Unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following Constitutional provision (const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "if any Bill shall not be returned by the president within ten days (sundays Excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall Be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the congress By their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not Be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a state Governor.