[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 15

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  allow the President to reduce or disapprove items of appropriation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 11 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

  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 of the United States to 
  allow the President to reduce or disapprove 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 when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``The President may reduce or disapprove any item of appropriation 
in any Act or joint resolution, except any item of appropriation for 
the Congress. If an Act or joint resolution is approved by the 
President, any item of appropriation provided in the Act or joint 
resolution that 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 of appropriation disapproved or 
reduced under this article. Notwithstanding section 7 of article I 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 pursuant to this article to the original amount 
contained in the Act or joint resolution as passed by the Congress.''.
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