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34.Who vetoes bills?
34.谁可以否决法案？
Answer: The President
答案：总统。
Explanation: Congress is the part of the U.S. government that is responsible for making laws.
解释：国会是美国政府的立法机构。
However, it cannot do it without the president's help.
但没有总统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.
每次国会通过了一项法案（或立法设想）都要递交总统签署。
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.
如果总统认为该法案欠妥，他或她可以否决它，这样它就不能成为法律了。
If Congress still wants that bill to become a law, it can vote again and if two-thirds (or 67%) of the members agree,
如果国会依然想要该法案成为法律，它还能再次投票，如果三分之二（或67%）的议员赞同，
they can override the president's veto so that the bill becomes a law even though the president doesn't like it.
他们就能推翻总统的否决，这样尽管总统不喜欢该法案，它依然成为法律。
But what happens when the president thinks that some parts of the bill are good but other parts are bad?
那如果总统认为这项法案部分可取怎么办？
U.S. bills can be very long, complex documents that have hundreds or thousands of pages and cover (or talk about) many different things.
美国的法案可能长而复杂，有成百上千页来讨论不同的事情。
Can the president veto just one or a few things in a bill, but still have the rest of the bill become law?
总统可以只针对法案的一部分进行否决，而法案的其余部分成为法律吗？
That question was being asked a lot in the mid-1990s.
该问题在二十世纪九十年代中期经常被问及。
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