[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 1 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


        S.Con.Res.1
                                       Agreed to January 4, 2005        

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the fourth day of January, two thousand and five


                          Concurrent Resolution

    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of 
Representatives on Thursday, the sixth day of January 2005, at 1 
o'clock post meridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution 
and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of 
the United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their 
Presiding Officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by 
the President of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the 
Speaker 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.
  Attest:

                                               Secretary of the Senate.

  Attest:

                                 Clerk of the House of Representatives.