[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 35 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 35

      Proposing an amendment to the Constitution to require that 
congressional resolutions setting forth levels of total budget outlays 
   and Federal revenues must be agreed to by two-thirds vote of both 
  Houses of the Congress if the level of outlays exceeds the level of 
                               revenues.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 1997

   Mr. Solomon 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 to require that 
congressional resolutions setting forth levels of total budget outlays 
   and Federal revenues must be agreed to by two-thirds vote of both 
  Houses of the Congress if the level of outlays exceeds the level of 
                               revenues.

    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 after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``On the question of agreeing, in either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate, to a concurrent resolution of the two 
Houses of the Congress which sets forth an appropriate level of total 
budget outlays of the Federal Government for a fiscal year and a 
recommended level of Federal revenues for that fiscal year or of 
agreeing, in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, to a 
report of a conference committee on such a concurrent resolution, the 
affirmative vote of two-thirds of Members present and voting (a quorum 
being present), shall be required for agreeing to the question, if the 
appropriate level of total budget outlays set forth in such concurrent 
resolution or recommended in such conference report exceeds the 
recommended level of Federal revenues set forth in such concurrent 
resolution or recommended in such conference report.''.
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