[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 50 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 50

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
    allowing the President to veto any item of appropriation or any 
    provision in any Act or joint resolution containing an item of 
                             appropriation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

Mr. Stump 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 of the United States 
    allowing the President to veto any item of appropriation or any 
    provision in any Act or joint resolution containing an item of 
                             appropriation.

    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 when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The President may disapprove, in any Act or joint 
resolution containing an item of appropriation, any item of 
appropriation or any provision. If an Act or joint resolution is 
approved by the President, any item of appropriation or provision 
contained in the Act or joint resolution that is not disapproved shall 
become law. The President shall return, with his objections, any 
disapproved item of appropriation or provision to the House in which 
the Act or joint resolution containing such item or provision 
originated, and may group such disapproved items or provisions for 
reconsideration by the Congress. The Congress may reconsider any item 
of appropriation or provision disapproved under this article in the 
manner prescribed under section 7 of article I for Acts disapproved by 
the President. The Congress may consider such disapproved items or 
provisions separately or as grouped by the President upon return of the 
disapproved items, but may not consider such disapproved items or 
provisions in any other grouping.
    ``Section 2. This article shall take effect at noon on the third 
day of January of the first odd-numbered year beginning after the date 
of the ratification of this article.''.

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