[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 170 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 170

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
   limiting the number of consecutive terms a person may serve as a 
    Representative or Senator, which shall be known as the Citizen 
             Representative Reform Act New Blood Provision.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1993

 Mr. Nussle (for himself, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, and Mr. Inglis of 
 South Carolina) 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 
   limiting the number of consecutive terms a person may serve as a 
    Representative or Senator, which shall be known as the Citizen 
             Representative Reform Act New Blood Provision.

    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 may be elected to serve during a term as a 
Representative if such person has served as a Representative during 
each of the six terms immediately preceding such term, except that no 
previous term shall be counted in which the person served for less than 
the entirety of such term.
    ``Section 2. No person may be elected or appointed to serve during 
a term as a Senator if such person has served as a Senator during each 
of the two terms immediately preceding such term, except that no 
previous term shall be counted in which the person served for less than 
three years.
    ``Section 3. For purposes of this article, service as a 
Representative or Senator in any term commencing before the 
ratification of this article is completed may not be taken into 
account.''.

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