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34.Who vetoes bills?
34.誰可以否決法案？
Answer: The President
答案：總統。
Explanation: Congress is the part of the U.S. government that is responsible for making laws.
解釋：國會是美國政府的立法機構。
However, it cannot do it without the president's help.
但沒有總統的支持它就立不了法。
Every time that the members of Congress agree on a bill (or an idea for a law), it has to be sent to the president for his or her approval.
每次國會通過了一項法案（或立法設想）都要遞交總統簽署。
If the president does not think that the bill is a good idea, he or she can veto the bill so that it doesn't become a law.
如果總統認為該法案欠妥，他或她可以否決它，這樣它就不能成為法律了。
If Congress still wants that bill to become a law, it can vote again and if two-thirds (or 67%) of the members agree,
如果國會依然想要該法案成為法律，它還能再次投票，如果三分之二（或67%）的議員贊同，
they can override the president's veto so that the bill becomes a law even though the president doesn't like it.
他們就能推翻總統的否決，這樣盡管總統不喜歡該法案，它依然成為法律。
But what happens when the president thinks that some parts of the bill are good but other parts are bad?
那如果總統認為這項法案部分可取怎么辦？
U.S. bills can be very long, complex documents that have hundreds or thousands of pages and cover (or talk about) many different things.
美國的法案可能長而復雜，有成百上千頁來討論不同的事情。
Can the president veto just one or a few things in a bill, but still have the rest of the bill become law?
總統可以只針對法案的一部分進行否決，而法案的其余部分成為法律嗎？
That question was being asked a lot in the mid-1990s.
該問題在二十世紀九十年代中期經常被問及。
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