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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 8, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. PLATTS introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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‘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.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink