A pocket veto sounds like a president's ultimate weapon, but Congress figured out how to close the loophole decades ago -- and the housing bill saga just proved it.

Escheatment is the legal process that hands your forgotten bank accounts, stocks and uncashed checks to the state after a few years of inactivity, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the dormancy clock is getting too short.

The most sweeping housing bill in decades cleared Congress with veto-proof majorities. Then the president attached a condition no one had agreed to.

The Senate cleared the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would expand supply and bar large investors from buying single-family homes. The House could vote within days.