[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 63 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 63

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution authorizing the President to 
            disapprove or reduce an item of appropriations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 11, (legislative day, March 3), 1993

  Mr. Simon 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 authorizing the President to 
            disapprove or reduce an item of 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 reduce or disapprove any item of appropriation 
in any Act or join resolution, except any item of appropriation for the 
legislative branch of the Government. 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. 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. The Congress may, in the manner 
prescribed under section 7 of the article I for Acts disapproved by the 
President, reconsider any item disapproved or reduced under this 
article, except that only a majority vote 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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