Sentence examples for effort to override a from inspiring English sources

Any effort to override a veto would begin in the Senate, where the bill passed April 11 on a 63-34 vote.

To stop naysayers' efforts to override a possible veto by President Barack Obama, Pelosi would need to hold only 145 of her 188 Democrats.

Children's advocates and legislators and governors from both sides of the aisle are furiously lobbying House Republicans in an effort to override the veto in a vote scheduled for Thursday.

Boehner, along with 168 Republicans and 16 Democrats, embarked on a failed effort to override that veto, even at a time when Ohio's own Attorney General had begun suing banks for fraud.

The House is likely to hold a vote on an effort to override Trump's veto on March 26, according to a Democratic leadership aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a public announcement.

The announcement was timed to head off a Congressional effort to override President Clinton's veto of a bill that would impose sanctions on companies believed -- but not proven -- to be aiding Iran's missile, nuclear or chemical weapons program.

If the Democrats had not lost control of the Senate, and Mr Obama went ahead and established immigration policies which Democrats had been unable to push through the legislature secure in the knowledge that they could still block any Republican effort to override them then this might represent a bit of a power grab by the executive.

White House and congressional GOP aides said Friday that there was no concentrated effort on Capitol Hill to lobby Republicans to vote against the resolution of disapproval — reflecting a lack of serious concern that many Republicans would defy the president and join an effort to override his veto.

In Kansas last week, an effort to override Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's veto failed by just three votes.

Members of his own party have vowed to lobby their colleagues in an effort to override the veto.

Democrats failed in a previous effort to override the president on the issue and have already extended the program through this year to prevent eligible children from losing their coverage.