Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
I’m not your lawyer. This is not legal advice.
This starts off with more balancing of powers, this time between the two houses of Congress. Bills raising revenue must start in the House, but the Senate can amend them.
Then, any bill (not just revenue-raisers) that passes both houses after they’ve hashed out the final language, goes to the President. The President can either sign the bill, making it a law, or can return it unsigned with objections to the originating chamber. If nothing else happens, that’s the end and the bill is dead.
But! It might only be mostly dead. With a two-thirds “supermajority” vote, Congress can overrule the veto and make the bill law without requiring that it be signed.
This section goes on to describe a version of what is often called a “pocket veto.” In some legislatures, if the chief executive neither signs nor vetoes legislation, the legislation is vetoed as if it had been returned unsigned. And, if Congress adjourns and so prohibits the return of the bill, that’s what happens. However, if congress is not adjourned and the president has not signed the bill for ten non-Sunday-days, it becomes law as if it had been signed.
Finally, this section says that the pass-pass-president-overrule process applies to everything except resolutions to adjourn. A big and exciting ending, if I do say so myself.
Next time, we get into what probably brought you here in the first place: Congressional power.