[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 55 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 55

      To change the date for counting the electoral votes in 2001.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 24 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

  Mr. Lott introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
           twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
      To change the date for counting the electoral votes in 2001.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Senate and House of 
Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives 
at the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon on the 5th day of January, 
2001, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. 
Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and 
two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be 
handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the 
certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral 
votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and 
acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the 
letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence 
and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they 
shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been 
ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules by law 
provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of 
the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which 
announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, 
if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, 
together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the 
two Houses.
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