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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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Should a 3/5 vote of the Legislature be able

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to override n veto?

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Yes.

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Does the six-day period give the Governor suf-

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ficient time to consider whether or not to veto a bill?

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Hell, Mayor McKeldin said No, and Governor

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Tawes said Yes, and that is only because of a system that

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they work out. It is the day that they present it to the

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Governor and they don't present it to the Governor because

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it is on its way through the Attorney General's office,

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so that gives him the elbow room he needs, but if it was

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a stricture to do it, then something ought to be done about

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it.

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Should the Governor's pocket veto be expanded

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so that bills that die by veto or by being left unsigned

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after the Legislature adjourns need not be returned at the

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next session of the Legislature for possible override?

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Well, that is sort of an academic kind of a

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question. It indicates lightly that the Governor isn't

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on the job on his obligations to say what he thinks and do,

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but on the other hand, they can start it all over again as



 

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