[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H.J. Res. 67 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 67

  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

                           September 21, 2005

Mr. Platts (for himself and 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, 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.''.
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