[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 60 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 60

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
                     authorize the line item veto.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 16, 2003

   Mr. Andrews 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 to 
                     authorize the line item veto.

    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 --

    ``In the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote which is 
presented to the President under section 7 of Article I of this 
Constitution, the President may decline to approve in whole any dollar 
amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct 
spending, or any tax benefit. A matter which the President declines to 
approve under this article of amendment shall be returned with his 
objections to the House in which it originated, and shall be treated in 
the same manner as a bill which the President returns without signing 
under section 7 of Article I of this Constitution.''.
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