[Senate Document 118-14]
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118th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - Senate Document 118-14
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                            VETO--S. 4199

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                                MESSAGE

                                  FROM

                  THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                               RETURNING

   WITHOUT MY APPROVAL S. 4199, THE ``JUDICIAL UNDERSTAFFING DELAYS 
 GETTING EMERGENCIES SOLVED ACT OF 2024'', RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT 
                   OF THE SENATE ON DECEMBER 23, 2024

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                January 3, 2025.--Ordered to be printed
                
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To the Senate of the United States:
    I am returning herewith without my approval S. 4199, the 
``Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act 
of 2024'' or the ``JUDGES Act of 2024.''
    S. 4199 seeks to hastily add judgeships with just a few 
weeks left in the 118th Congress. The House of Representative's 
hurried action fails to resolve key questions in the 
legislation, especially regarding how the new judgeships are 
allocated, and neither the House of Representatives nor the 
Senate explored fully how the work of senior status judges and 
magistrate judges affects the need for new judgeships. The 
efficient and effective administration of justice requires that 
these questions about need and allocation be further studied 
and answered before we create permanent judgeships for life-
tenured judges.
    S. 4199 would create new judgeships in States where 
Senators have sought to hold open existing judicial vacancies. 
Those efforts to hold open vacancies suggest that concerns 
about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating 
force behind passage of this bill now.
    Therefore, I am vetoing this bill.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, December 23, 2024.

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