[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 1 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 1

To provide for the counting on January 8, 2009, of the electoral votes 
         for President and Vice President of the United States.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 6, 2009

   Mr. Reid (for himself and Mr. McConnell) submitted the following 
       concurrent resolution; which was considered and agreed to

_______________________________________________________________________

                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
To provide for the counting on January 8, 2009, of the electoral votes 
         for President and Vice President of the United States.

    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 8th day of January 2009, 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.
                                 <all>