[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 16 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 16

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
             grant the President line-item veto authority.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 12 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

  Mr. Brown 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 
             grant the President line-item veto authority.

    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--

    ``Section 1. The President shall have power, when any bill, 
including any vote, resolution, or order, which contains any item of 
spending authority, is presented to him pursuant to section 7 of 
article I of this Constitution, to separately approve, reduce, or 
disapprove any provision, or part of any provision, contained therein.
    ``When the President exercises this power, he shall signify in 
writing which portions of the bill he has approved and which portions 
he has disapproved or reduced. These portions, to the extent not 
reduced or disapproved, shall then become a law. The President shall 
return with his objections any disapproved or reduced portions of a 
bill to the House in which the bill originated. The Congress shall 
separately reconsider each such returned portion of the bill in the 
manner prescribed for disapproved bills in section 7 of article I of 
this Constitution. Any portion of a bill which shall not have been 
returned or approved by the President within ten days (Sundays 
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him shall become a law, 
unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which 
case it shall not become a law.
    ``Section 2. Items of spending authority are those portions of a 
bill that appropriate money from the Treasury or that otherwise 
authorize or limit the withdrawal or obligation of money from the 
Treasury. Such items shall include items of appropriations, spending 
authorizations, authority to borrow money on the credit of the United 
States or otherwise, dedications of revenues, entitlements, uses of 
assets, insurance, guarantees of borrowing, and any authority to incur 
obligations.''.
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