[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 134 (Tuesday, October 24, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S10943]
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           CHANGING DATE FOR COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES IN 2001

  Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent 
that the Senate now proceed to the immediate consideration of S.J. Res. 
55 introduced earlier today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the joint resolution by 
title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 55) to change the date for 
     counting electoral votes in 2001.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent 
that the joint resolution be read the third time and passed, the motion 
to reconsider be laid upon the table, and any statements relating to 
the resolution be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 55) was read the third time and 
passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 55

       Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, The 
     Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of 
     the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o'clock in the 
     afternoon on the 5th day of January, 2001, and the President 
     of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers 
     shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and 
     two 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.

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