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Gene Taylor: In its present form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows…

On the recordJune 22, 2005
In its present form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Taylor of Mississippi moves to recommit H.J. Res. 10 to the Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendments: Page 3, line 8, insert ``Section 1.'' before ``The Congress''. Page 3, line 9, strike the closing quotation marks and the period that follows. Page 3, after line 9 insert the following: ``Section 2. Total outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year, unless three- fifths of the whole number of each House of Congress shall provide by law for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a rollcall vote. ``Section 3. The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased, unless three- fifths of the whole number of each House shall provide by law for such an increase by a rollcall vote. ``Section 4. Prior to each fiscal year, the President shall transmit to the Congress a proposed budget for the United States Government for that fiscal year, in which total outlays do not exceed total receipts. ``Section 5. No bill to increase revenue shall become law unless approved by a majority of the whole number of each House by a rollcall vote. ``Section 6. The Congress may waive the provisions of this article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect.…
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