[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 72 (Thursday, May 3, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII,

       98. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Mr. Gregory D. 
     Watson, a citizen of Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress 
     to propose, pursuant to Article V, an amendment to the United 
     States Constitution that would provide for a same-day 
     nationwide popular referendum, within the several states, as 
     the exclusive means of ratifying future federal 
     constitutional amendments, with an approval threshold 
     requirement of a simple majority of the vote cast in not less 
     than three-fifths of the geographic districts which comprise 
     the United States House of Representatives; which was 
     referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.