A Pocket Veto

question 8

Multiple Choice

A pocket veto

• A) can be used by a president only once during a term in office, although the veto can be used twice if the president serves two terms.
• B) can only be used when Congress adjourns for the session within ten days of the bill being submitted to the president.
• C) means that the legislation cannot be reintroduced in the next Congress.
• D) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1936.
• E) is a veto in which the president does not send a veto message back to Congress.

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