[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3228 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3228

To amend the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to add the requirement that if 
  Federal budget is in surplus then the vetoed item shall be used to 
                        reduce the public debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 12, 1998

 Mr. John (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. 
Berry, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Holden, Mr. Goode, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Peterson of 
Minnesota, Mr. Sisisky, Mr. Condit, Mr. Baesler, Mr. Minge, Mr. Hall of 
Texas, Mr. Bishop, and Mr. Cramer) 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 add the requirement that if 
  Federal budget is in surplus then the vetoed item shall be used to 
                        reduce the public debt.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 
1021(a)(A)(i) of the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is amended by inserting 
``or, if the budget is in surplus, will be used to reduce the public 
debt'' before the semicolon.
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