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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
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President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947

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I was reading this Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act. I don't get it. If the presedent vetoed it then the bill won't be legislated (which to me means the bill was adopted into legislation). Please help me with. Thanks.

The Labor–Management Relations Act (Pub.L. 80-101, 61 Stat. 136, enacted June 23, 1947, informally the Taft–Hartley Act) is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill"[1] while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech,"[2] and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society,"[3] Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.[4] The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; informally the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935. The principal author of the Taft–Hartley Act was J. Mack Swigert[5] of the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius & Hollister.
  

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Bills can be legislated (passed into law), as it says, by overriding a presidential veto. I believe it takes a 2/3 majority vote of both houses of Congress.

— Mister Micawber

  • Bills can be legislated (passed into law), as it says, by overriding a presidential veto.
  • I believe it takes a 2/3 majority vote of both houses of Congress.
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Bills can be legislated (passed into law), as it says, by overriding a presidential veto. I believe it takes a 2/3 majority vote of both houses of Congress.
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Thank you, Mr Micawber.
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