[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 25 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 25

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 authorize the President to reduce or disapprove any appropriation in 
                    any bill presented by Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 27, 2005

  Mr. Talent (for himself, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Coleman) 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 to 
 authorize the President to reduce or disapprove any appropriation in 
                    any bill presented by Congress.

    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 by the Congress:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. The President may reduce or disapprove any 
appropriation in any bill, order, resolution, or vote, which is 
presented to the President under section 7 of Article I.
    ``Section 2. Any legislation that the President approves and signs, 
after being amended pursuant to section 1, shall become law as so 
modified.
    ``The President shall return those portions of the legislation that 
contain reduced or disapproved appropriations with objections to the 
House where such legislation originated.
    ``Congress may separately consider any reduced or disapproved 
appropriations in the manner prescribed under section 7 of Article I 
for bills disapproved by the President.
    ``Section 3. This article shall take effect on the first day of the 
first session of Congress beginning after the date of ratification.''.
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