Which parts of this constitutional amendment do you like?
A18:
Amendment --.
Section 1. Every law or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Section 2. Congress shall appropriate no money from the treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both houses, taken by yeas and nays.
Section 3. No new tax shall be levied, nor any existing tax raised, but by a vote of two-thirds of both houses, taken by yeas and nays.
Section 4. All bills appropriating money shall specify in federal currency the exact amount of each appropriation and the purposes for which it is made; and Congress shall grant no extra compensation to any public contractor, officer, agent or servant, after such contract shall have been made or such service rendered.
Section 5. The president may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriation disapproved, and shall return a copy of such appropriation, with his objections, to the house in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by the president.
Lunar:
So, if appropiation bills need to be passed with 2/3 vote, what's the point of a line-item veto for the very same bills? That 2/3 is enough to override a veto.
A18:
Quote from: Lunar on April 16, 2005, 12:33:02 AM
So, if appropiation bills need to be passed with 2/3 vote, what's the point of a line-item veto for the very same bills? That 2/3 is enough to override a veto.
You could say the same about any bill that passes with a 2/3 majority. It still goes to the president.
The Congress has to consider the president's objections to that item; and then they can either repass it or change their minds.
That's how the Confederates did it.
Citizen James:
I sort of like one, though that's going to greatly increase the number of bills which need to be introduced.
five I could learn to like, though 1 makes it redundant.
Two and three could make it very difficult to pass any sort of budget at all, if a minority strongly disapproved. (then again, that's pretty much what the filibuster rules already allow - and budgets happen anyway).
A18:
A bill relating to a single subject can still contain multiple appropriations.
Also, only the controversial spending would have trouble passing, so I think that's a good thing.
Tax hikes should be hard, IMO (as long as spending is just as hard).
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