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Gov. Cooper vetoes private school vouchers and immigration enforcement orders

6:00pm September 20, 2024

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that allocates hundreds of millions of dollars to expanded private school vouchers and immigration enforcement. The Republican plan that Cooper rejected Friday also orders sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigrant agents searching jails for people who may be in the country unlawfully.

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Uber and Lyft are fighting minimum wage laws. But in this state, the drivers won

6:01am June 17, 2024

by Dara Kerr

Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

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Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

9:05am August 17, 2023

by Hannah Shoenbaum, Associated Press/Report for America

Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom.

Permit to buy handgun no longer required in North Carolina

2:03pm March 29, 2023

by Associated Press

North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a permit from a local sheriff, after the Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday overrode the Democratic governor's veto — a first since 2018.

Politics & Government

Veto Override Of NC School Reopening Bill Fails In Senate

12:32pm March 02, 2021

by Associated Press

Troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division prepare to deploy to the Middle East on Saturday at Fort Bragg, N.C.

War Powers Resolution On Iran Is Latest Attempt By Congress To Reclaim Clout

5:45pm January 07, 2020

by David Welna

The House is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution that could force the president to pull back U.S. troops from hostilities with Iran. The catch: it would have to be veto-proof.

Politics & Government

Fact Check: No, NC House Democrats Weren’t At 9/11 Ceremony Amid Contentious GOP Vote

10:22am September 18, 2019

by Paul Specht, PolitiFact NC

North Carolina Republicans held a controversial vote on Sept. 11.

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President Trump shows the executive veto of the national emergency resolution in the Oval Office of the White House Friday.

Trump Vetoes Congressional Effort To Limit Border Wall Funding

6:17pm March 15, 2019

by Scott Horsley

President Trump used his veto pen for the first time Friday. GOP senators who bucked the president in Thursday's vote said they did so to preserve congressional control over government spending.

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President Trump said Thursday he would "probably have to veto" the resolution blocking his emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump Vows Veto After Congress Blocks His Order To Build Border Wall

4:56pm March 14, 2019

by Susan Davis

The resolution to terminate the president's national emergency declaration sets up the likely first veto confrontation between Congress and the White House since President Trump took office.

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North Carolina Veto Budget Override Complete With House Vote

4:20pm June 28, 2017

by GARY D. ROBERTSON , Associated Press

North Carolina Republicans completed their override of Democratic Gov.