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Obama issues first veto rejecting stopgap spending bill

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] US President Barack Obama effectively issued his first veto of congressional legislation Wednesday, rejecting as "unnecessary legislation" a stopgap spending bill that was drafted in case inclement weather would have interfered with the vote that approved the appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) two weeks ago. The stopgap spending bill would have allowed the DOD to continue to function if the appropriations bill for fiscal year 2010 were stalled in Congress. As a technical matter Obama allowed the bill to expire on his desk during the congressional adjournment, precipitating a so-called pocket veto. The actual appropriations bill was approved on December 19, and was signed into Public Law No. 111-118 by President Obama on the same day. The appropriations bill approved $626 billion for Iran and Afghanistan operations and a pay raise for the military. The FY 2010 appropriations also includes a budget for a two-month extension of long-term unemployment benefits, subsidized healthcare benefits for those unemployed, transit funding, three provisions for the Patriot Act, and legislation to safeguard Medicare payments to doctors from being cut.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).