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Tom McClintock (R-CA)

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide certain line item veto authority to the President.

H.J.Res. 8 · House resolution Economics and Public Finance

A Republican resolution with 1 Republican cosponsor · See the cosponsor

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the United States Constitution to give the President line item veto authority. Specifically, it allows the President to reduce an appropriation when approving and signing a bill or joint resolution. If the President makes such a reduction, they must notify the House of Representatives and the Senate within 10 days. Congress may then consider disapproval of the reduction. If two-thirds of each House vote to disapprove the reduction, the appropriation returns to the amount originally presented to the President. The proposed amendment requires ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years to become valid.