[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H11]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL

  The enactment of H.R. 3326 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2010, Public Law 111-118), which was signed into law on December 19, 
2009, has rendered the enactment of H.J. Res. 64 (Continuing 
Appropriations, FY 2010) unnecessary. Accordingly, I am withholding my 
approval from the bill. (The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655 (1929)).
  To leave no doubt that the bill is being vetoed as unnecessary 
legislation, in addition to withholding my signature, I am also 
returning H.J. Res. 64 to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 
along with this Memorandum of Disapproval.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
                                    The White House, December 30, 2009.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The objections of the President will be 
spread at large upon the Journal, and the veto message and the joint 
resolution will be printed as a House document.
  Pursuant to the order of the House of today, further consideration of 
the veto message and the joint resolution are postponed until the 
legislative day of Wednesday, January 13, 2010, and that on that 
legislative day, the House shall proceed to the constitutional question 
of reconsideration and dispose of such question without intervening 
motion.

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