Asia-Pacific
Obama vetoes first piece of legislation
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-31 16:00
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HONOLULU: US President Barack Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, a stopgap spending bill that never had to take effect.
The White House on Wednesday said Obama exercised his right to send back to the Congress a temporary appropriations bill that lawmakers passed in case a winter storm about two weeks ago would have prevented them from approving a final measure to fund the Defense Department next year.
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The White House described the move as a technicality that the president took out of an abundance of caution, and that it was his first veto.
