# Okay, so congress is regretting overriding the President's veto. **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-congress-is-regretting-overriding-the-presidents-veto/767311 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-congress-is-regretting-overriding-the-presidents-veto/767311 "2016-09-30T20:54:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire) #### Post date: [October 1, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-congress-is-regretting-overriding-the-presidents-veto/767311/7 "2016-10-01T14:58:35Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Can’t the just pass another bill making everything right as rain again? I don’t know about “as right as rain” but here’s what I reckon they’ll end up doing. (crosspost from another thread) > [@Should Congress override Obama's veto on Saudi waiver?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-congress-override-obamas-veto-on-saudi-waiver/766714/149): > > The particulars may vary, but it almost seems obvious to me how they are going to walk this back. It doesn’t take a genius to guess that they’ll handle it how they handle everything these days - through creative accounting. > > They’ll amend the law so that 9/11 families that win a judgement against S.A. will be paid out of some US-government controlled slush-fund or other, and then it will be the purview of Congress and the State Dept. to decide if/when/how they decide to enforce the judgment by collecting from S.A. > > It will basically boil down to our diplomats using a somewhat make-believe/self-proclaimed ledger of “debts” as a stick to carry in their back pockets for when the carrots aren’t working. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-congress-is-regretting-overriding-the-presidents-veto/767311)._