HJ 384 IH
102d CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 384
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution allowing an item veto in
appropriations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 26, 1991
Mr. EWING (for himself, Mr. FAWELL and Mr. HASTERT ) introduced the following
joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution allowing an item veto in
appropriations.
  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 if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths
  of the several States within seven years after its submission to the States
  for ratification:
`Article--
  `The President may approve, disapprove, or reduce any item of appropriation
  in the same appropriation bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill,
  designate the items disapproved and the items reduced, and shall return a
  copy of such items, with his objections, to the House in which the bill
  shall have originated. The same proceedings shall then be had as in the
  case of other bills disapproved by the President, except that in the case
  of items disapproved or reduced it shall take approval by three-fifths of
  each House to become law.'.