[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 4 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 4

  Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the President to 
   exercise a line-item veto over individual items of appropriation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Specter introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the President to 
   exercise a line-item veto over individual 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 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 for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The President may reduce or disapprove any item of 
appropriation in an Act or joint resolution. If an Act or joint 
resolution is approved by the President, any item of appropriation 
contained therein which is not reduced or disapproved shall become law.
    ``Section 2. The President shall return with his objections any 
item of appropriation reduced or disapproved to the House in which the 
Act or joint resolution containing such item originated.
    ``Section 3. The Congress may, in the manner prescribed under 
section 7 of Article I for acts disapproved by the President, 
reconsider any item reduced or disapproved under this article, except 
that only a majority of each House shall be required to approve an item 
which has been disapproved or to restore an item which has been reduced 
by the President to the original amount contained in the Act or joint 
resolution.''.

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