[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 30 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 30

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution allowing an item veto in 
                            appropriations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

   Mr. Ewing (for himself, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Hastert, Mr. 
 Packard, Mr. Goss, Mr. Allard, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Herger, Mr. Zeliff, Mr. 
 Emerson, Mr. King, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. 
Crapo, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Upton, Mr. Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Boehner, Mr. 
   Hutchinson, Mr. Lewis of Florida, and Mr. Talent) introduced the 
following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution allowing an item veto in 
                            appropriations.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution if 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after its submission to the States for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``The President may approve, disapprove, or reduce any item of 
appropriation in the same appropriation bill. In such case he shall, in 
signing the bill, designate the items disapproved and the items 
reduced, and shall return a copy of such items, with his objections, to 
the House in which the bill shall have originated. The same proceedings 
shall then be had as in the case of other bills disapproved by the 
President, except that in the case of items disapproved or reduced it 
shall take approval by three-fifths of each House to become law.''.

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