Sentence examples for objectionable bill from inspiring English sources

The answer is that the pocket veto exception was inserted to prevent Congress from ducking a veto by passing a bill and quickly adjourning to prevent bill return of an anticipated veto (without the pocket veto, an objectionable bill would simply become law after ten days).

If the only existing use for those talents was as equally ersatz "coons," the duo — who, success achieved, let the objectionable billing slip away — set out on a long-winding path toward something true.

Apart from an objectionable poster, what on earth has changed?

[Bank lobbyists] were counting on Senate committee hearings and backroom negotiations among key lawmakers to remove or soften what the financial industry considers most objectionable in the bill.

Civil liberties advocates found it far more objectionable than the House bill, which puts a time limit on many of the new powers.

The 20-week ban was the "least objectionable" part of that bill, Davis said.

Sponsors have already abandoned the bills' most objectionable feature, which interfered with the domain name addressing system in an attempt to cut off access to "pirate" sites – a measure critics charged would "break the internet".

In the current political environment, both parties are likely to decide that comprehensive reform is impossible to achieve, and start to attach the least objectionable provisions to other bills.

Besides, they said, the watered-down bill is still objectionable.

Yet unions, whose efforts were vital to the election of Mr. Obama and many Congressional Democrats, counter by saying the Baucus bill is too objectionable to let it slide.

Too many senators discovered objectionable details in the energy bill that had not come to light earlier -- for example, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was upset to learn about a uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico -- and just enough of them were sufficiently angry to halt the bill's progress.