[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 1 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 1

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                         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 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.

            Passed the Senate January 6, 2009.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
111th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                             S. CON. RES. 1

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

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