[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 156 (Friday, October 23, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H7176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       33. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Mr. Gregory D. 
     Watson, a citizen of Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress 
     to propose, for ratification by the legislatures of the 
     several states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would clarify that any person chosen to be 
     Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives must be an 
     actual currently-serving member of the U.S. House of 
     Representatives; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       34. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory D. Watson, a citizen of 
     Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress to propose, for 
     ratification by special conventions held within the 
     individual states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would require that both houses of Congress 
     approve, by a three-fifths vote of all members elected and 
     serving in each body, any declaration of martial law, or 
     suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, by the President of 
     the United States, and further providing that such 
     Congressionally-approved martial law declaration, or 
     suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, not exceed 30 days' 
     duration, and clearly describe the geographic territory 
     covered by such declaration or suspension; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.

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