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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 167 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 167

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     provide for balanced budgets for the United States Government.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 1993

Mr. Doolittle (for himself, Mr. Condit, Mr. Coble, Mr. Young of Alaska, 
    Mr. Baker of Louisiana, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Royce, Mr. 
  Sensenbrenner, Mr. Armey, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Paxon, Mr. Klug, Mr. 
Zeliff, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Kim, 
Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Inglis of 
   South Carolina, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Goss, Mr. McInnis, Mr. Buyer, Mr. 
 Livingston, Mr. Crane, Mr. Packard, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Burton 
   of Indiana, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Ewing, Mr. 
 Fawell, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Stump, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Stearns, 
  Mr. Sundquist, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Upton, Mr. Zimmer, Mr. Lewis of 
  Florida, Mr. Franks of Connecticut, Mr. Franks of New Jersey, Mrs. 
Fowler, Mr. Gallo, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Goodlatte, 
  Mr. Grams, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Hastert, Mr. 
 Hefley, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Horn, Mr. Huffington, 
 Mr. Hunter, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Istook, Mr. Sam 
    Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, and Mr. Kasich) 
 introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION

 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     provide for balanced budgets for the United States Government.

    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 when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. Total outlays of the United States for any fiscal year 
shall not exceed total receipts to the United States for that year, 
unless \3/5\ of the whole number of both Houses of Congress shall 
provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts.
    ``Section 2. Any bill for raising taxes shall become law only if 
approved by a majority of the whole number of both Houses of Congress 
by rollcall vote.
    ``Section 3. The Congress may waive the provisions of this article 
for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect.
    ``Section 4. Total receipts shall include all receipts of the 
United States except those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall 
include all outlays of the United States except for those for repayment 
of debt principal.
    ``Section 5. The limit on the debt of the United States held by the 
public shall not be increased unless \3/5\ of the whole number of each 
House shall provide by law for such an increase by a rollcall vote.
    ``Section 6. Congress shall enforce this Article by appropriate 
legislation.
    ``Section 7. Except with respect to section 5 which shall take 
effect upon ratification, this Article shall take effect beginning with 
fiscal year 1998 or with the second fiscal year beginning after the 
ratification, whichever is later.''.

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