[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 52 (Monday, April 22, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3797-S3798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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           CONGRESSIONAL TERMS LIMIT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

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                        LEAHY AMENDMENT NO. 3700

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. LEAHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to 
the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 21) proposing a constitutional 
amendment to limit congressional terms; as follows:

       In the committee substitute strike all after the words 
     ``Section 1'' and insert the following:
       ``No person shall be elected to a full term as a Senator 
     more than twice, or to a full term as a Representative more 
     than thrice; no person who has been a Senator for more than 
     three years of a term to which some other person was elected 
     shall subsequently be elected as a Senator more than once; 
     and no person who has been a Representative for more than a 
     year of a term to which some other person was elected shall 
     subsequently be elected as a Representative more than twice.
       ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it 
     shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution 
     by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
     within seven years from the date of its submission to the 
     States by the Congress.''
       ''Section 3. A member of the Senate serving a term of 
     office on the date of the ratification of this article, who 
     upon completion of that term will have served two or more 
     terms in the Senate, may complete that term. A member of the 
     House of Representatives serving a term of office on the date 
     of ratification of this article, who upon completion of that 
     term will have served six or more terms in the House of 
     Representatives, may complete that term.''
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                        LEAHY AMENDMENT NO 3701

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)

[[Page S3798]]

  Mr. LEAHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to 
the motion to recommit proposed by Mr. Thompson to the joint resolution 
Senate Joint Resolution 21, supra; as follows:

       In lieu of the proposed instructions, insert the following: 
     with instructions to report the resolutions back to the 
     Senate forthwith with an amendment as follows: That the 
     following article is proposed as an amendment to the 
     Constitution of the United States;


                              ``article --

       ``Section 1. No person shall be elected to a full term as a 
     Senator more than twice, or to a full term as a 
     Representative more than thrice; no person who has been a 
     Senator for more than three years of a term to which some 
     other person was elected shall subsequently be elected as a 
     Senator more than once; and no person who has been a 
     Representative for more than a year of a term to which some 
     other person was elected shall subsequently be elected as a 
     Representative more than twice.
       ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it 
     shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution 
     by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
     within seven years from the date of its submission to the 
     States by the Congress.''
       ''Section 3. A member of the Senate serving a term of 
     office on the date of the ratification of this article, who 
     upon completion of that term will have served two or more 
     terms in the Senate, may complete that term. A member of the 
     House of Representatives serving a term of office on the date 
     of ratification of this article, who upon completion of that 
     term will have served six or more terms in the House of 
     Representatives, may complete that term.''
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                        LEAHY AMENDMENT NO. 3702

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. LEAHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to an 
amendment to the joint resolution Senate Joint Resolution 21, supra; as 
follows:

       In the language proposed to be stricken, strike all after 
     the words ``Section 1'' and insert the following:
       ``No person shall be elected to a full term as a Senator 
     more than twice, or to a full term as a Representative more 
     than thrice; no person who has been a Senator for more than 
     three years of a term to which some other person was elected 
     shall subsequently be elected as a Senator more than once; 
     and no person who has been a Representative for more than a 
     year of a term to which some other person was elected shall 
     subsequently be elected as a Representative more than twice.
       ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it 
     shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution 
     by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
     within seven years from the date of its submission to the 
     States by the Congress.''
       ``Section 3. A member of the Senate serving a term of 
     office on the date of the ratification of this article, who 
     upon completion of that term will have served two or more 
     terms in the Senate, may complete that term. A member of the 
     House of Representatives serving a term of office on the date 
     of ratification of this article, who upon completion of that 
     term will have served six or more terms in the House of 
     Representatives, may complete that term.''

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