5a.What does this chart indicate about how the president can check the power of Congress? 5b. What does this chart indicate about how Congress can check the power of the president?

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5a.) The president's authority to check the power of Congress comes in two primary forms: a veto to legislation (which can be overridden with a 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate), and an irreversible pocket veto (whereby a president nullifies a bill by not signing it for 10 days while Congress is not in session).

5b.) Sessions of Congress face considerable thresholds to check a president's veto on their legislative proposal. Exceptions in charted history with nearly 10 vetoes (FDR, Truman, Ford, and Reagan) denote instances where the president either exceeded judicial authority and prompted unpopularity across partisan sectors in legislative proposals or faced partisan majorities in Congress that opposed the legislation. One prominent example emerged when Congress overrode Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill, for example).