If a bill is sent to the president one week before Congress adjourns and the president neither signs it nor returns it does it become a law?

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2026-08-18 20:11

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No it doesn't become law. It is called a pocket veto when he neither signs or directly vetoes it. The fact that congress adjourned has little influence because he has 10 days to let it sit doing nothing.

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