[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 126 (Thursday, July 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-278. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature 
     of the State of Missouri applying to the United States 
     Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the United 
     States Constitution, to call a convention of the states 
     limited to proposing an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms that a 
     person may be elected as a member of the United States House 
     of Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms 
     that a person may be elected as a member of the United States 
     Senate; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

                  Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 40

       Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States 
     requires a Convention to be called by the Congress of the 
     United States for the purpose of proposing an amendment to 
     the Constitution upon application of two-thirds of the 
     Legislatures of the several states; and
       Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Missouri favors a 
     proposal and ratification of an amendment to said 
     Constitution, which shall set a limit on the number of terms 
     that a person may be elected as a member of the United States 
     House of Representatives and as a member of the United States 
     Senate: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-
     ninth General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the House of 
     Representatives concurring therein, hereby make an 
     application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the 
     Constitution of the United States of America, to call a 
     convention limited to proposing an amendment to the 
     Constitution of the United States of America to set a limit 
     on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a 
     member of the United States House of Representatives and to 
     set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be 
     elected as a member of the United States Senate; and be it 
     further
       Resolved, That this application shall be considered as 
     covering the same subject matter as the applications from 
     other states to Congress to call a convention to set a limit 
     on the number of terms that a person may be elected to the 
     House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States 
     and the Senate of the United States; and this application 
     shall be aggregated with same for the purpose of attaining 
     the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to 
     call a limited convention on this subject, but shall not be 
     aggregated with any other applications on any other subject; 
     and be it further
       Resolved, That this application shall expire five (5) years 
     after the passage of this resolution; and be it further
       Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to 
     prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the 
     President and Secretary of the Senate of the United States 
     and to the Speaker, Clerk, and Judiciary Committee Chairman 
     of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United 
     States, and copies to each member of the Missouri 
     Congressional delegation, and the presiding officers of each 
     of the legislative houses in the several states, requesting 
     their cooperation.

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