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The Veto Record of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

George C. Robinson
George C. Robinson
Affiliation:
Iowa State Teachers College
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In two administrations over a period of approximately eight years, President Franklin D. Roosevelt has established a record in his exercise of the veto power—not a record in quantity of measures disapproved, but a record in the wide range of subjects drawing his attention and his adverse action. President Cleveland, in his two non-consecutive administrations, retains the record for total number of measures disapproved, although President Roosevelt has run ahead of him in the use of the pocket veto. It should be noted, however, that most of the Cleveland vetoes were applied to individual pension or military relief bills. The practice of Congress in more recent administrations has been to combine pension and relief measures into one omnibus bill, to be consistently, although not always successfully, disapproved by successive presidents.

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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 1942 , pp. 75 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1942

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References

1 Listed in Record of Veto Messages, 1888–1941, published by the Secretary of the Senate. The vetoes can be found in the Senate or House Journals and in the Congressional Record.

2 H.R. 9870, 74th Cong., Jan., 1936, H.R. 5478; 75th Cong., June, 1937; H.R. 289, 76th Cong., May, 1940.

3 H.R. 6763, 75th Cong., July, 1937; H.R. 10530, 75th Cong., June, 1938.

4 H.R. 6663, 73rd Cong., Mar., 1934.

5 H.R. 9381, 76th Cong., June, 1940.

6 S. 3394, S. 2808, H.R. 3190.

7 H.R. 2378, S. 3530.

8 H.R. 3657, S. 1001.

9 Within the first three weeks of the 77th Congress, five of the “repeat” measures were re-introduced and referred to committees—S. 16, S. 438, H.R. 45, H.R. 1280, H.R. 2232. A special bill on stolen cattle in interstate commerce, S. 1261, passed the Senate in April, was amended and passed the House in July, and with the conference report accepted, was approved by the President on August 18, 1941. For the first eight months, the other interested parties have either been inactive or their bills have been assigned to unsympathetic committees.