IA 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 15 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 8, 2009 Mr. Platts introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.

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:   —

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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