Joe Cunningham: “What we are trying to do is the Presidents, the early Presidents, had…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 1995

What we are trying to do is the Presidents, the early Presidents, had the right of a two-thirds majority to control that, that a bill came to them as a single bill. Now we have got hundreds of bills wrapped up into one. Jefferson and Lincoln and the Presidents had to have a two-thirds vote to override their veto, and that is all we are asking under this. And, second, we have precedents by our Governors having the same kind of a thing, and it has been very successful.

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Joe Cunningham

South Carolina

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Discussing the need for a two-thirds majority for bill approvals.

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Joe Cunningham: “What we are trying to do is the Presidents, the early Presidents, had the right of a two-thirds majority to control…”

Editor's note · Context