[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 245 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 245

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should exercise 
    the line-item veto without awaiting the enactment of additional 
authoriza-tion for the purpose of obtaining a judicial determination of 
                         its constitutionality.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 26 (legislative day, July 20), 1994

 Mr. Specter submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should exercise 
    the line-item veto without awaiting the enactment of additional 
authorization for the purpose of obtaining a judicial determination of 
                         its constitutionality.

Whereas Federal spending and the Federal budget deficit have reached 
        unreasonable and insupportable levels;
Whereas a line-item veto would enable the President to eliminate wasteful pork-
        barrel spending from the Federal budget and curb the deficit before 
        considering cuts in important programs;
Whereas evidence may suggest that the Framers of the Constitution intended that 
        the President have the authority to exercise the line-item veto;
Whereas scholars who have studied the matter are not unanimous on the question 
        of whether the President currently has the authority to exercise the 
        line-item veto;
Whereas there has never been a definitive judicial ruling that the President 
        does not have the authority to exercise the line-item veto; and
Whereas some scholars who have studied the question agree that a definitive 
        judicial determination on the issue of whether the President currently 
        has the authority to exercise the line-item veto may be warranted: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the President 
should exercise the line-item veto without awaiting the enactment of 
additional authorization for the purpose of obtaining a judicial 
determination of its constitutionality.
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