[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 59 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 59

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
   provide that Federal judges be reconfirmed by the Senate every 10 
                                 years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1993

 Mr. Fields of Texas 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 that Federal judges be reconfirmed by the Senate every 10 
                                 years.

    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--

    ``Notwithstanding section 1 of article III of this Constitution, a 
judge or justice of a court created under that article shall not 
continue in office, except with the consent of the Senate, given within 
the first 365 days at the beginning of each successive 10-year period 
after the judge or justice first takes office. For the purposes of this 
article of amendment, a judge or justice who first took office before 
the adoption of this article shall be deemed to have first taken office 
on the date of such adoption.''.

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