To give the President item veto authority over appropriation Acts and targeted tax benefits in revenue Acts.
160 cosponsors
Line Item Veto Act - Grants the President legislative line item veto rescission authority. Authorizes the President to rescind all or part of any discretionary budget authority or veto any targeted tax benefit if the President determines that such rescission: (1) would help reduce the Federal budget deficit; (2) will not impair any essential Government functions; and (3) will not harm the national interest. Requires the President to notify the Congress of such a rescission or veto by special message after enactment of an appropriations Act providing such budget authority or a revenue or reconciliation Act containing a targeted tax benefit.
Allows the President in each special message to propose to reduce the appropriate discretionary spending limit by an amount that does not exceed the total amount of discretionary budget authority rescinded by that message. Requires the President to submit a separate special message for each appropriations Act and for each revenue or reconciliation Act.
Makes such a rescission effective unless the Congress enacts a rescission-receipts disapproval bill.
Describes: (1) information to be included in the President's message; and (2) procedures to govern consideration of rescission-receipts disapproval legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Requires the Comptroller General, beginning January 6, 1996, and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress on: (1) a list of each proposed presidential rescission of discretionary budget authority and veto of a targeted tax benefit submitted through special messages for the fiscal year ending during the preceding calendar year, together with their dollar value, and an indication of whether each rescission of discretionary budget authority or veto of a targeted tax benefit was accepted or rejected by Congress; (2) the total number of proposed presidential rescissions of discretionary budget authority and vetoes of a targeted tax benefit submitted through special messages for the fiscal year ending during the preceding calendar year, together with their total dollar value; (3) the total number of presidential rescissions of discretionary budget authority or vetoes of a targeted tax benefit submitted through special messages for the fiscal year ending during the preceding calendar year and approved by Congress, together with their total dollar value; (4) a list of rescissions of discretionary budget authority initiated by Congress for the fiscal year ending during the preceding calendar year, together with their dollar value, and an indication of whether each such rescission was accepted or rejected by Congress; (5) the total number of rescissions of discretionary budget authority initiated and accepted by Congress for the fiscal year ending during the preceding calendar year, together with their total dollar value; and (6) a summary of the information provided by paragraphs (2), (3), and (5) for each of the ten fiscal years ending before the fiscal year during this calendar year.
Provides a process of expedited judicial review of provisions of this Act.
Referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.
Became Public Law No: 104-130.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
PROCEEDINGS POSTPONED - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the Orton amendment and anounced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Orton demanded a recorded vote and, pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, further proceedings were postponed.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Waters amendment.
PROCEEDINGS POSTPONED - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the Waters amendment and anounced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Ms. Waters demanded a recorded vote and, pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, further proceedings were postponed.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Tauzin amendment.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Traficant amendment.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Stenholm amendment.
PROCEEDINGS POSTPONED - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the Stenholm amendment and anounced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Stenholm demanded a recorded vote and, pursuant to the preceeding unanimous consent agreement, the vote was postponed.
Pursuant to a previous unanimous consent agreement, the Chair announced the order of business to be the further considera tion of amendments on which action had been postponed.
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The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the House proceeded with ten minutes of further debate, equally divided between Ms. Collins (IL) and Mr. Clinger.
Mrs. Collins (IL) moved to recommit with instructions to Government Reform.
DEBATE - House proceeded with ten minutes of debate motion to recomit the bill to committee, with instructions.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 185 - 241 (Roll no. 94). (consideration: CR H1264)
Roll Call #94 (House)Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 294 - 134 (Roll no. 95).
Roll Call #95 (House)On passage Passed by recorded vote: 294 - 134 (Roll no. 95).
Roll Call #95 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.