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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. J. RES. 8 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide |
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| 6 | 6 | | certain line item veto authority to the President. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | CCLINTOCK(for himself and Mr. WEBERof Texas) submitted the fol- |
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| 11 | 11 | | lowing joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judi- |
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| 12 | 12 | | ciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | JOINT RESOLUTION |
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| 14 | 14 | | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United |
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| 15 | 15 | | States to provide certain line item veto authority to |
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| 16 | 16 | | the President. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two- 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | thirds of each House concurring therein), That the fol-3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | lowing article is proposed as an amendment to the Con-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | stitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | States within seven years after the date of its submission 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | for ratification: 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HJ 8 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘ARTICLE— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘S |
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| 31 | 31 | | ECTION1. In approving and signing a bill or joint 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | resolution that is presented under section 7 of article I, 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | the President may reduce an appropriation in such bill or 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | joint resolution, and such bill or joint resolution shall be-5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | come law with such reduction incorporated. 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘S |
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| 37 | 37 | | ECTION2. If the President reduces an appropria-7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | tion under section 1 of this article— 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(1) not later than 10 days after the date of 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | such reduction, the President shall notify the House 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of Representatives and the Senate of such reduction; 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(2) the House of Representatives and the Sen-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ate may consider disapproval of such reduction; and 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(3) if two-thirds of each House votes to dis-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | approve of such reduction, the amount of the appro-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | priation in law subject to such reduction shall be 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | treated as returned to the amount originally pre-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | sented to the President under section 1.’’. 18 |
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