[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 72 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
H. J. RES. 72

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
             allowing an item veto in appropriations bills.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 16, 1997

  Mrs. Emerson (for herself and Mr. Condit) 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 of the United States 
             allowing an item veto in appropriations bills.

    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, 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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The President shall have the power to disapprove any 
appropriation or provision and approve any other appropriation or 
provision in the same appropriation bill. In such case he shall, in 
signing the bill, designate the appropriations and provisions 
disapproved; and shall return a copy of such appropriations and 
provisions, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall 
have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case 
of other bills disapproved by the President.
    ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures 
of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date 
of its submission.''.
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