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For the first time since President Obama took office in 2009, Congress has overridden his veto.
The U.S. Senate voted 97-1 to override President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would allow victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. The lone dissenting vote was Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), who has "always had the president's back":
In a letter Monday to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.) and ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter warned that allowing the bill to become law risked "damaging our close and effective cooperation with other countries" and "could ultimately have a chilling effect on our own counter-terrorism efforts." Thornberry and Smith both circulated letters among members in the last few days, urging them to vote against overriding the veto. CIA Director John O. Brennan also warned of the 9/11 bill's "grave implications for the national security of the United States" in a statement Wednesday.
The House of Representatives voted 348-to-77:
Congress on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to override a veto by President Obama for the first time, passing into law a bill that would allow the families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the plot.
Democrats in large numbers joined with Republicans to deliver a remarkable rebuke to the president. The 97-to-1 vote in the Senate and the 348-to-77 vote in the House displayed the enduring power of the Sept. 11 families in Washington and the diminishing influence here of the Saudi government.
See also: The Risks of Suing the Saudis for 9/11 by the New York Times Editorial Board and this article in the Saudi Gazette.
Previously: President Obama to Veto Bill Allowing September 11 Victims to Sue Saudi Arabia
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday September 29 2016, @07:16PM
Hate, really?
Having people disagree with your position and vote against it occasionally is hate now?
Or did something really crazy happen there in DC that I missed?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday September 29 2016, @11:18PM
Having people disagree with your position and vote against it occasionally is hate now?
That's stretching the truth, even for you Arik.
Or did something really crazy happen there in DC that I missed?
Yes, you did. [youtube.com] Only [pbs.org] the last eight years [newser.com].
Sigh.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday October 03 2016, @12:39AM
If he had been born in Kenya it would have absolutely zero impact on his legal status. His mother was a US citizen, he is therefore natural born.
The best I know this meme originated from the Clinton campaign during the primary fight before the first Obama nomination. Yes, I know someone dug up a forum post from a few months earlier that may well be where they got the idea, but it's clear they were the ones that kept pushing it trying to get it to stick. I've heard this meme for years and years in the media as an example of the horrible hatred of Republicans but everyone I know is a Republican and none of them bring it up. Only the demonicrat media seem to even remember it, and only as a stick with which to beat us all indiscriminately, which hardly seems fair at all.
I'm really not sure how that translates into 'hate' or at least into significantly more hate than other Presidents have dealt with in the past. Still looks like bullshit to me.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?