[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S.J. Res. 21 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 21

   Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 19 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

  Mr. Thompson (for himself, Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Bond, Mr. 
 Brown, Mr. Burns, Mr. Coverdell, Mr. Craig, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. Frist, 
Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Mack, Mr. Packwood, Mr. Smith, and Mr. 
Thomas) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice 
             and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
   Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms.

    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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. After this article becomes operative, no person shall 
be elected to a full term as a Senator more than twice, or to a full 
term as a Representative more than thrice; no person who has been a 
Senator for more than three years of a term to which some other person 
was elected shall subsequently be elected as a Senator more than once; 
and no person who has been a Representative for more than a year of a 
term to which some other person was elected shall subsequently be 
elected as a Representative more than twice.
    ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the 
several States, as provided by the Constitution, within seven years 
from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.''.
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