A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit appropriations for a fiscal year which would cause the total appropriations to exceed estimated receipts for such fiscal year.

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Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Congress from making any appropriation which would result in a level of total appropriations for any fiscal year exceeding the total estimated receipts of the United States for such year. Authorizes suspension of such prohibition in the case of a national emergency, including a state of war formally declared by Congress, by either a concurrent resolution recommended by the President or a joint resolution introduced in either House of Congress.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 7 February 1979

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