[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H54]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. O'ROURKE:
        H.J. Res. 13.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article V of the Constitution: 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 
     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.