[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 30 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 30

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 1999

    Mr. Archer 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 appropriation 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 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--

    ``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 the 
case of other bills disapproved by the President.''.
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