[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 164 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 164

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
    provide a limitation on the terms of United States Senators and 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 1993

   Mr. Shepherd introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
    provide a limitation on the terms of United States Senators and 
                            Representatives.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 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 for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. No person shall serve in the United States Congress 
more than two full terms as a Senator or more than six full terms as a 
Representative.
    ``Section 2. Section 1 shall take effect at the beginning of the 
first even-numbered year that begins after the date of the adoption of 
this article of amendment. For the purposes of that section, service 
before that section takes effect shall not be included in computing the 
terms a  person has served.''.

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