[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 25, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2487-S2488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. Byrd):
  S.J. Res. 11. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States relative to a

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seat in the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia; to 
the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that S.J. Res. 
11, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
relative to a seat in the House of Representatives for the District of 
Columbia, be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the joint resolution was 
ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 11

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

     SECTION 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

       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 by 
     the Congress:

                              ``Article--

       ``Section 1. The people of the District constituting the 
     seat of Government of the United States shall elect one 
     representative to the House of Representatives who is a 
     resident of that District. The representative so elected 
     shall have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a 
     Representative from a State.
       ``Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this 
     article by appropriate legislation.''.

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