Ask AI
S.J.Res. 126

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to promote fiscal responsibility.

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the adoption of any Federal budget in which expenditures exceed receipts unless approved by a rollcall vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of Congress directed solely to that subject. Prohibits the Congress from passing and the President from signing any appropriation bill which would cause the total expenditures of the Federal Government to exceed its total receipts in any fiscal year. Permits the Congress to waive such provisions with respect to any single year in which a declaration of war is in effect.

Prohibits any annual increase in the proportion of Federal receipts to the national income unless approved by a rollcall vote, directed solely to such purpose, of three-fifths of each House.

Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ](D-AZ)Sponsor
24 cosponsors4 D19 R1 I
24cosponsors1committees2actions1related bills13subjects
  1. IntroReferral

    Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

    Judiciary Committee
  2. IntroReferral10000

    Introduced in Senate

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to promote fiscal responsibi… — Informed