Article 1, section 7 of the United States Constitution?

Question

Article 1, section 7 , paragraph two is very confusing, can anyone make it easier for me to understand please. Sorry if my english is not that good.

Answer 1

second part refers to a pocket veto, president can sign or veto a bill. A bill is NOT a law.

Answer 2

"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, "

The President needs to sign a bill before it becomes law.

"but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it."

If he vetoes it (doesn't sign it), he can return it to Congress, explaining why he vetoed it, and Congress can debate it again.

"If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law."

If both Houses of Congress decide, by a 2/3 margin in each, that the bill should be a law anyway, the President's veto is overridden.

"But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively."

Votes to override a veto are entered into the Congressional record.

"If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law."

If the President neither signs nor vetoes a bill, it becomes a law be default after ten days (not counting Sundays), UNLESS Congress has adjuorned at that time.  If Congress has adjourned, then the bill does NOT become a law... the "pocket veto".