[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 4, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6-S7]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 TO PROVIDE FOR THE COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE 
                     PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  Mr. FRIST. On behalf of myself, Senator Reid, Senator Lott, and 
Senator Dodd, I send a concurrent resolution to the desk and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will report the concurrent resolution 
by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 1) to provide for the 
     counting on January 6, 2005, of the electoral votes for 
     President and Vice President of the United States.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the concurrent resolution is 
agreed to.
  The concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 1) reads as follows:

       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 
     sixth day of January 2005, 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.

  Mr. FRIST. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. REID. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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  The VICE PRESIDENT. The chair appoints the Senator from Mississippi, 
Mr. Lott, and the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Dodd, on the part of 
the Senate to count electoral votes.

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