1、CRS INSIGHTPresidential Vetoes of Annual Defense Authorization BillsOctober 1, 2015 (IN10368) | |Pat Towell, Specialist in U.S. Defense Policy and Budget (ptowellcrs.loc.gov, 7-2122)Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is recommending that President Obama veto the conference report on H.R. 1735, the N
2、ational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2016, Carter told reporters on September 30, 2015. If Obama were to veto the measure, it would mark the fifth time since 1961, when Congress enacted the first annual defense authorization bill, that a president has vetoed that measure. Prior to 1986, wh
3、en military construction projects were authorized in separate legislation, an annual military construction bill was vetoed by President Johnson in 1965 and by President Ford in 1976.In each of those six cases, after the veto of an initial bill, Congress passedand the President signed into lawa new b
4、ill, essentially identical to the vetoed legislation except for the elimination of provisions to which the President had objected.Carter, and other Administration officials, object to the fact that H.R. 1735 would circumvent the defense spending cap set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 by including
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