# Should Congress override Obama's veto on Saudi waiver?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-congress-override-obamas-veto-on-saudi-waiver/766714
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 24, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-congress-override-obamas-veto-on-saudi-waiver/766714 "2016-09-24T09:52:50Z")
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### 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: [September 30, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-congress-override-obamas-veto-on-saudi-waiver/766714/149 "2016-09-30T21:20:39Z")

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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.

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