veto a bill

基本解释

President Bush is set to veto a bill that would have loosened federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
布什总统将否决国会要解除禁止对胚胎干细胞研究提供联邦资助一项法案。
But what’s more interesting to him is that Reynolds is there asking him to veto a bill that she voted in favor of.
但是他更感兴趣的是Reynolds请求他去否决一个她投票赞成的法案。
the decision of Hawaii's governor, a few days earlier, to veto a bill that would have given gay couples access to “civil unions” just shy of marriage;
夏威夷州州长此前数日否决了一项法案，该法案将允许即将成婚的同性配偶获得民事结合(civil unions)认可；

Then it joins that bill to a measure the president would veto if passed separately.

The White House has indicated it would veto a bill that goes as far as the House version.
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And you said the President would veto a bill with that funding.
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And would he veto a bill that was operating on that premise?
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,