[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 15 Introduced in House (IH)]







111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 15

  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

                            January 8, 2009

    Mr. Platts 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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