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Harry Reid: “I think what we are going to do, as the House has done--I think at this time it is our intention to override the veto of…”

On the recordMay 22, 2008
I think what we are going to do, as the House has done--I think at this time it is our intention to override the veto of the President. He vetoed 14 of the 15 sections of the farm bill. Through a clerical error, section 3 was left out. As a result of that, section 3 will be sent to us from the House later today, having been passed, and we will see if we can pass that here later today. But we have a good legal precedent going back to a case, I understand, in 1892, when something like this happened before. It is totally constitutional to do what we are planning to do. So no one should be concerned about that.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing plans to override the President's veto of the farm bill.

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