[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2424 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2424

 To amend the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to eliminate the requirement 
that a Federal budget deficit must exist in order for the President to 
                   use the line-item veto authority.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 1997

 Mr. Upton (for himself, Mr. Roemer, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Cox 
   of California, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Camp, Mr. Ehlers, Mr. Shays, Mr. 
 Castle, Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Bass, Mr. Peterson of 
 Minnesota, Mr. Condit, Mr. Barcia, Mr. Kolbe, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Neumann, 
 Mr. Bob Schaffer of Colorado, Mr. Kingston, Ms. Christian-Green, Ms. 
Danner, Mr. Hefley, Mr. Jones, Mr. Chabot, and Mr. Bereuter) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to eliminate the requirement 
that a Federal budget deficit must exist in order for the President to 
                   use the line-item veto authority.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1021(a)(A) 
of the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is amended by striking clause (i) and 
by redesignating clauses (ii) and (iii) as clauses (i) and (ii), 
respectively.
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