He signed it. We’ll fight it. {ACLU}

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86. You just have to look at the numbers...

This bill was controversial long before the final vote, it is not that it suddenly came up and the Congress members didn't know what was in it, the key sections anyway.

President Obama made very clear his concerns yet in the Senate alone it passed 93 - 7. In order for the Senate to be unable to get the 2/3rds, the vote change would have to be reduced by 30 votes. Not going to happen.

In the House, the majority is definitely in the hands of the repubs, there would be little to no shift there.

Heads are counted multiple times during contentious bills, the White House knew full well any veto would be overturned.

If he had vetoed it it would merely be put forward as an election ploy, a photo-op for President Obama because NOTHING would change, the bill would be passed again WITHOUT any signing statement trying to mitigate the worst section.

If a bill is vetoed and then overridden, it does not go back to the President's desk for signing again.

If this Congress had been functioning in any decent capacity, the likelihood of a President's veto being overridden is much less. This Congress, as we all know and watched during the last two years, is NOT functioning in a way that one could trust common sense and sanity might prevail.

Keep in mind as well, the bill was made up of over 5000 sections, the most contentious issue is within a subsection of a section.