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<distribution-code display="yes">IA</distribution-code> 
<congress display="yes">111th CONGRESS</congress> 
<session display="yes">1st Session</session> 
<legis-num>H. J. RES. 16</legis-num> 
<current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber> 
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<action-date date="20090108">January 8, 2009</action-date> 
<action-desc><sponsor name-id="K000362">Mr. King of Iowa</sponsor> introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HJU00">Committee on the Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc> 
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<legis-type>JOINT RESOLUTION</legis-type> 
<official-title display="yes">Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the sixteenth article of amendment.</official-title> 
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<section display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HF8AA338A49BD4E1B00A1B151F95976F3" section-type="undesignated-section"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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:</text> 
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA739B1ECC34648959500EC93FEC311A0" style="traditional"> <constitution-article id="H413652D6C4664A458102B4579D1B3B2C"><enum>  —</enum> 
<section id="HD89388956BD0427294ED11856D854BCA" section-type="undesignated-section"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.</text> </section></constitution-article><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
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