President Obama threatens to veto all eight bills passed by the Republican-controlled Congress this January in what is coming out as most number of veto threats announced at the beginning of a new congress since Ronald Reagan's time.

Due to the veto threats, the Republicans say Obama is not giving bipartisanship a chance. On the other hand, the White House claims that Republicans are passing bills that the president is popularly opposed to.

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"Right out of the gate we see that the new Republican majority in Congress is actually recycling old legislation that they know that the President strongly opposes. So it doesn't send a very clear signal that this new Republican Congress is ready to pursue a different political strategy than the one that they've pursued for the last four years," according to Press Secretary Josh Earnest.

In comparison, former president Reagan only issued five veto threats from 1985 to1987. Obama's veto threats have amounted to nine, including that of the Iran sanctions bill in case the Congress pushes through with it.

It is just this year that Obama relatively used his veto threats as he only used it once in his first 17 months in office regarding the bill sponsored by Republicans concerning greenhouse gas emissions. In his six years in office, he has issued 148 veto threats and has the fewest record in comparison to other presidents.

House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy of California said in a statement that he has already talked to Obama about the veto threats while at a meeting at the White House weeks ago and noted that Obama said he wanted to work together with the Congress and the Senate. However, McCarthy reportedly said that with the issuance of veto threats, working together might have no truth in it.

Obama also stood firm with his veto threats as he talked about it in his State of the Union Address last week as he said, "We can't slow down businesses or put our economy at risk with government shutdowns or fiscal showdowns. We can't put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance, or unraveling the new rules on Wall Street, or refighting past battles on immigration when we've got a system to fix. And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, it will earn my veto."

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