The president has the power to veto the imposition of sanctions.
Several of those vetoed bills passed without comment in later sessions.
However, if the feasible set is empty, legislative action is not politically feasible since any proposal will be vetoed.
Three items - welfare reform, middle-class tax cuts and tort reform - passed both chambers only to be vetoed.
Only one out of seven such doubleedged proposals was vetoed by the people (table 3).
A dam may be approved by the water agency, only to be vetoed by the environmental agency that finds it in violation of environmental law.
