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• n  a vote that blocks a decision
• n  the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
• v  vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
  The President vetoed the bill
• v  command against
  Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store

• Their attempt to override Bush on children's health care is just the start of a campaign to dare the President to veto other bills.
• After Congress passes a bill, the President has ten working days to veto it, says the Constitution.
• Doing his level best to avoid being branded an intractable Republican diehard, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg recently urged President Roosevelt to seek the item vetopower to .

• blackball
• negative
• forbid
• prohibit
• interdict
• proscribe
• disallow
• nix

• permit
• allow

News & Articles

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• Complaint: Perry veto threat violates state law
  Gov. Rick Perry violated state laws prohibiting coercion of officials by vowing to veto ethics-enforcement funding unless Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigns, a watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Friday morning with prosecutors.
  June 14, 2013 - Austin American-Statesman
• Watchdog group accuses Rick Perry of coercion over threat to veto funding for public integrity unit
  Perry for threatening to veto the $7 million unless Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg -- who served time in jail after pleading guilty to DWI -- steps down.
  June 14, 2013 - Dallas Morning News
• France Threatens Veto of U.S-E.U. Trade Talks
  Prime Minister says country will use veto if protections for film and media are not in place. read more        
  June 13, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter

Quotes

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• John Murtha in ABC News
  The president could veto it, but then he wouldn't have any money,Murtha told an anti-war group in an interview broadcast on movecongress.org.
• Alan Greenspan in Baltimore Sun
  My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to wield his veto against out-of-control spending,Greenspan wrote in his book.
• President Bush in International Herald Tribune
  The Senate bill, Bush said, "is very similar to legislation I vetoed last year. This bill crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling. If it advances all the way through Congress to my desk, I will veto it," the president said in...