[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 97 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 97

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
limit the composition of the Senate to Senators from States admitted to 
         the Union prior to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2020

Mr. Walker submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
limit the composition of the Senate to Senators from States admitted to 
         the Union prior to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), 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:

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    ``The Senate of the United States shall be composed of Senators who 
are from States admitted to the Union prior to the One Hundred 
Sixteenth Congress.''.
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