[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 3 (Friday, January 7, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. PLATTS:
       H.J. Res. 15.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V.--The Congress, whenever two thirds of both 
     Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to 
     this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures 
     of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention 
     for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be 
     valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this 
     Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three 
     fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three 
     fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification 
     may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment 
     which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight 
     hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and 
     fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and 
     that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its 
     equal Suffrage in the Senate.