Constitutionality of the President's "pocket Veto" Power: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on Constitutionality of the President's "pocket Veto" Power, the Family Practice of Medicine Bill and H.R. 3571, January 26, 1971U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 234 pages |
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40th Congress 41st Congress absolute veto action adjournment of Congress adjournment prevent amicus curiae ANDREW JOHNSON appropriate approved attached authority become a law become law Christmas claim clause committee Cong Congress adjourned CONGRESS THE LIBRARY constitutional provision December December 22 delivery Department disapproval duty EDMISTEN Ervin Executive Mansion family doctors family medicine Family Practice final adjournment Government gress House of Representatives Houses of Congress interim adjournment joint resolution legislative day LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Medicine Act memorandum ment officer passed penciled period Practice of Medicine presented President Nixon President's objections prevent its return prevent the return private bill question received Mar reconsider REHNQUIST relief retained unsigned return a bill returning the bill Sam Ervin second session Secretary Senator KENNEDY Senator MATHIAS Separation of Powers session of Congress signed Sokitch stamped as received Supreme Court tion United veto message vote Washington White House
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Page 92 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind.
Page 180 - It is a maxim, not to be disregarded, that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used. If they go beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit, when the very point is presented for decision.
Page 70 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 204 - We face a massive crisis in this area [health care] and unless action is taken both administratively and legislatively to meet that crisis within the next two or three years, we will have a breakdown in our medical care system which could have consequences affecting millions of people throughout the country.
Page 71 - President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it is presented to him, it becomes a law, in the same way as if he had signed it, unless Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return.
Page 92 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Page 136 - There can be no question connected with the administration of public affairs more important or more difficult to be satisfactorily dealt with than that which relates to the rightful authority and proper action of the Federal Government upon the subject of internal improvements. To inherent embarrassments have been added others resulting from the course of our legislation concerning it.
Page 145 - ... shall be referred to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
Page 136 - I could not give my assent to the bill entitled, "An act to improve the navigation of the Wabash river;" but I could not have done so without receding from the ground which I have, upon the fullest consideration, taken upon this subject, and of which Congress has been heretofore apprized, and without throwing the subject again open to abuses which no good citizen, entertaining my opinions, could desire.
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