That the following articles are proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of 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 by the Congress: — 1. The President may reduce or disapprove any appropriation in any bill or joint resolution that is presented to the President under section 7 of Article I. 2. Any bill or joint resolution that the President approves and signs, after being amended under section 1, shall become law as so modified. 3. If the President reduces or disapproves an appropriation in a bill or joint resolution under section 1, not later than 10 days after the date on which the bill or joint resolution is presented to the President under section 7 of Article I, the President shall return to the House from which the bill or joint resolution originated— (a) the portion of the bill or joint resolution containing the reduced or disapproved appropriation