[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 63 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 63

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
   provide that Federal judges be reconfirmed by the Senate every 12 
                                 years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 1997

Mr. Paxon 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 12 
                                 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 of an inferior 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 12-year period 
after the judge first takes office. For the purposes of this article of 
amendment, a judge 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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