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Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by kfury on Thursday January 24, 2013 @09:11PM (#5113534)
To be fair, recent congresses have actually pushed through so little significant legislation that there's much less to veto.

Seeing these stats broken out as a percentage of legislation that crosses his desk would be much more interesting.

Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by tibbon on Thursday January 24, 2013 @09:40PM (#5113627)
To me, this highlights that the Congress has done so little successfully that they have barely ever even had the chance for Obama to disagree.

I'd like to see a similar chart of # of total bills signed into law by presidents. I'm guessing we'd see Obama to be similarly low for the same reason.

Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by jbooth on Thursday January 24, 2013 @09:49PM (#5113675)
Yeah, if we're looking at senate stats, we should look at the record number of filibusters since Obama's been president.
Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by adventured on Thursday January 24, 2013 @10:09PM (#5113727)
Part of the reason for it, is the style in which the hyper dysfunctional modern era US Government passes new laws.

They do it almost strictly as a bundling system to guarantee no laws are ever vetoed. Which is how they've managed to pass tens of thousands of new federal laws, with a mere 79 vetoes spanning a quarter century.

Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by DigitalJack on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:19PM (#5113925)
Line Item Veto is supposed to help with that. I don't know the mechanics, and if it becomes onerous when a bill has 1000+ pages.
Re:U.S. Senate: Vetoes by ahoy on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:38PM (#5113996)
The president was granted line-item veto by congress in the late 90s, when Clinton was in office. It got challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional.