[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 45 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 45

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
allow the States to limit the period of time United States Senators and 
                       Representatives may serve.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 13, 2000

Mr. Ashcroft introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
allow the States to limit the period of time United States Senators and 
                       Representatives may serve.

    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 hereby proposed as 
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. Each State or the people thereof may prescribe the 
maximum number of terms to which a person may be elected or appointed 
to the Senate of the United States.
    ``Section 2. Each State or the people thereof may prescribe the 
maximum number of terms to which a person may be elected to the House 
of Representatives of the United States.
    ``Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures 
of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date 
of its submission to the States by the Congress.''.
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