Match the following. match the items in the left column to the items in the right column. 1. staff members who work for the president pocket veto 2. a type of veto that allows the president to strike out parts of a bill before signing it into law line-item veto 3. a passive veto by the president that kills a piece of legislation and cannot be overridden by congress; the president either doesn't sign a bill on his or her desk within ten days or before congress adjourns executive office of the president 4. the act of earmarking funds for certain specific projects that benefit only small, special interest groups pork barrel spending