[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 59 Introduced in House (IH)]




104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 59

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1995

   Mr. Poshard 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 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 joint resolution, except any item of appropriation for 
the legislative branch of the Government. If any 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 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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