[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 31 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 31

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
   granting the President the authority to exercise an item veto of 
          individual appropriations in an appropriations bill


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 1999

 Mr. Allard introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
   granting the President the authority to exercise an item veto of 
          individual appropriations in an appropriations bill

    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 7 years after the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The President shall have the power to disapprove any 
appropriation of an appropriations bill at the time the President 
approves the bill. The appropriations in the bill not disapproved shall 
become law upon approval by the President.
    ``Section 2. If the President disapproves an appropriation pursuant 
to this article, in signing the bill containing the appropriation, the 
President shall return a copy of the disapproved appropriation, with a 
statement of the reasons for the disapproval, to the House in which the 
appropriations bill originated. The House in which the appropriations 
bill originated may then reconsider the disapproved appropriation in a 
bill as provided for a bill returned by the President under section 7 
of article I. If the bill is approved as provided under section 7 of 
article I it shall become law.''.
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