HJRES 23 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Proposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 1, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedFeb 7, 2007
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Prohibits the constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Requires any activities of the U.S. government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold within three years from the date of ratification of this amendment.

Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution three years after ratification of this amendment and thereafter prohibits Congress from levying taxes on personal incomes, estates, and gifts.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2007 to Apr 29, 2008, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-FLJeff MillerOriginalFeb 7, 2007
R-MDRoscoe G. BartlettApr 30, 2007
R-AKDon YoungApr 22, 2008
R-MITim WalbergApr 29, 2008

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 1, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
  2. Feb 7, 2007Introduced in House
  3. Feb 7, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
  4. Feb 7, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E287)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 7, 2007Introduced in House

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