[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 26, 1994]
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           SENATE RESOLUTION 245--RELATING TO LINE ITEM VETO

  Mr. SPECTER submitted the following amendment; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary:

                              S. Res. 245

       Whereas Federal spending and the Federal budget deficit 
     have reached unreasonable and insupportable levels;
       Whereas a line-item veto would enable the President to 
     eliminate wasteful pork-barrel spending from the Federal 
     budget and curb the deficit before considering cuts in 
     important programs;
       Whereas evidence may suggest that the Framers of the 
     Constitution intended that the President have the authority 
     to exercise the line-item veto;
       Whereas scholars who have studied the matter are not 
     unanimous on the question of whether the President currently 
     has the authority to exercise the line-item veto;
       Whereas there has never been a definitive judicial ruling 
     that the President does not have the authority to exercise 
     the line-item veto;
       Whereas some scholars who have studied the question agree 
     that a definitive judicial determination on the issue of 
     whether the President currently has the authority to exercise 
     the line-item veto may be warranted: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the 
     President should exercise the line-item veto without awaiting 
     the enactment of additional authorization for the purpose of 
     obtaining a judicial determination of its constitutionality.

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