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

“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.”