Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 - Introduced

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  1  1          SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2    BY  BRUNKHORST, ANGELO, McKINLEY, ZIEMAN, HOUSER,
  1  3      HAHN, BOETTGER, GASKILL, HORN, MILLER, WOOD,
  1  4          SCHOENJAHN, WARNSTADT, ZAUN, and WARD
  1  5 A Concurrent Resolution urging the United States
  1  6    Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution
  1  7    of the United States to create a line item veto power
  1  8    for the President of the United States.
  1  9    WHEREAS, the American public has long favored the
  1 10 line item veto to purge federal government budgets of
  1 11 unnecessary spending; and
  1 12    WHEREAS, forty=three states have the line item
  1 13 veto; and
  1 14    WHEREAS, in 1997, Pub. L. No. 140=130 went into
  1 15 effect, empowering the President of the United States
  1 16 to veto specific spending or certain taxing provisions
  1 17 of legislation; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, the Act provided the President the
  1 19 authority to cancel in whole any dollar amount of
  1 20 discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct
  1 21 spending, and certain limited tax benefits; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, in the single year this budget cutting
  1 23 tool was in effect, it was used 82 times to delete
  1 24 unnecessary expenditures in 11 spending bills, with
  1 25 total savings of nearly $2 billion over five years;
  1 26 and
  1 27    WHEREAS, on June 26, 1998, the United States
  1 28 Supreme Court, in Clinton v. City of New York,
  1 29 declared the item veto law to be unconstitutional; and
  1 30    WHEREAS, a constitutional amendment granting the
  2  1 President line item veto authority will help ensure a
  2  2 necessary check on a congressional tradition of
  2  3 inserting billions of dollars of unnecessary spending
  2  4 into appropriations bills; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  5    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF
  2  6 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the Iowa General
  2  7 Assembly respectfully urges the Congress of the United
  2  8 States to propose an amendment to the Constitution of
  2  9 the United States establishing a line item veto power
  2 10 for the President of the United States; and
  2 11    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the
  2 12 Senate shall forward copies of this Resolution to the
  2 13 President of the United States, the President of the
  2 14 Senate of the United States, the Speaker of the House
  2 15 of Representatives of the United States, and the
  2 16 members of Iowa's congressional delegation.
  2 17 LSB 2042SS 81
  2 18 jr:rj/pj/5