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HJRES 60 108th Congress House Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Authorization Congress Constitutional amendments Government Operations and Politics Item veto Law Legislation Tax incentives Taxation

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

Introduced: June 16, 2003 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Jun 25, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Jun 16, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 16, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President, in the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote presented to the President by the House of Representatives and the Senate, to decline to approve in whole any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct spending, or any tax benefit.
What's happening now June 25, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
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Calvert, Ken
California · Feb 26, 2004
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.J. Res. 60: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HJRES-60/
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"H.J. Res. 60: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HJRES-60/.
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H.J. Res. 60, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HJRES-60/.
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[H.J. Res. 60: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.](https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HJRES-60/)
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