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Obama Vetoes First Piece of Legislation
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Dec 31, 2009 09:48am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Thursday, December 31, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | HONOLULU - President Barack Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, a stopgap spending bill that never had to take effect.
The White House on Wednesday said Obama exercised his right to send back to the Congress a temporary appropriations bill that lawmakers passed in case a winter storm about two weeks ago would have prevented them from approving a final measure to fund the Defense Department next year. The Dec. 19 blizzard didn't keep them away from the Capitol and they approved the $626 billion defense spending bill before the previous budget expired.
The White House described the move as a technicality that the president took out of an abundance of caution, and that it was his first veto.
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