[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 15

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
          allow the President to veto items of appropriation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Thurmond (for himself and Mr. Simpson) introduced the following 
joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
          allow the President to veto items 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, 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 within seven years after the 
date of its submission to the States for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``The President may disapprove any item of appropriation in any Act 
or joint resolution. If an Act or joint resolution is approved by the 
President, any item of appropriation contained therein which is not 
disapproved shall become law. The President shall return with his 
objections any item of appropriation disapproved to the House in which 
the Act or joint resolution containing such item originated. The 
Congress may, in the manner prescribed under section 7 of article I for 
Acts disapproved by the President, reconsider any item of appropriation 
disapproved under this article.''.

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