[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S.J. Res. 27 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 27

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 11, 2007

  Mrs. Dole 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 
                    relative to 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 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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