[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 63 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 63

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
      authorizing the President to disapprove or reduce items of 
                             appropriation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2007

Mr. English of Pennsylvania 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 
      authorizing the President to disapprove or reduce items of 
                             appropriation.

    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 may reduce or disapprove any item of appropriation 
in any Act or joint resolution, except any item of appropriation for 
the legislative branch of the Government. If an Act or joint resolution 
is approved by the President, any item of appropriation contained 
therein which is not reduced or disapproved shall become law. The 
President shall return with his objections any item of appropriation 
reduced or disapproved to the House in which the Act or joint 
resolution containing such item originated. The Congress may, in the 
manner prescribed under section 7 of the article I for Acts disapproved 
by the President, reconsider any item disapproved or reduced under this 
article, except that only a majority vote of each House shall be 
required to approve an item which has been disapproved or to restore an 
item which has been reduced by the President to the original amount 
contained in the Act or joint resolution.''.
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