For example, the United States Constitution gives the president power to veto bills passed by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The law,passed by Congress, does not prevent gays and lesbians from serving in the military.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

It was better protected from Indian attacks because it passed by two Army forts.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The report led Republicans to say the recovery plan passed by Democrats is failing.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

But on Wednesday, thirteen Republicans supported a jobs bill passed by the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

President Obama wants a final bill passed by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The newact passed by Congress is named for two victimsof hate crimes.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The bill was passed by close votes in the House and Senate.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

One day,as crowds passed by, two young men left notes.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Liberal Democrats, including Speaker Pelosi, insist that a public option must be part of any bill eventually passed by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The bill passed by a margin of 308 to 114, but 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted no.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The measure was passed by a narrow 23 to 22 vote with one member not participating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"We need to see this the actual law passed by Congress, this EPCA, Electronic Privacy Communications Act made much more stronger, brought up to date.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The members of Somaliland's Lower House of Parliament introduced a motion to impeach the president this weekend, which if successfully passed by the majority would require a two-thirds vote in the Upper House of Parliament to finish the impeachment.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

and led to massive taxpayer funded bailouts. President Obama, who has made Wall Street reform one of his top priorities, says the reform package passed by the Senate late Thursday means financial firms will now be held accountable for their actions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about currently without it,create new private insurance marketplaces, And,like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But the buildings at Guadalupe continued to be used by soldiers and others who passed that way.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

By early October,Congress passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a rescue plan for the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The United States did not vote on the cease-fire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

As time passed, the area filled with material left by rivers.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20