[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 74 (Thursday, May 14, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H3214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York:
        H.J. Res. 52.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V--Amendment. 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.