[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 103 (Monday, June 14, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S4517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-17. A joint resolution adopted by the legislature of 
     the State of Colorado rescinding all resolutions, memorials, 
     or other enactments previously passed by the Colorado General 
     Assembly or either house thereof petitioning United States 
     Congress for a convention under Article V of the United 
     States Constitution; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

                   House Joint Resolution No. 21-1006

       Whereas, The Colorado General Assembly has made 
     applications to the United States Congress to call one or 
     more conventions to propose amendments concerning specific 
     subjects to the United States Constitution, pursuant to 
     Article V thereof; and
       Whereas, There has not been an Article V joint application 
     made by the Colorado General Assembly in over 25 years, and 
     since that time Colorado has nearly doubled in population and 
     our laws and resolutions should keep pace with progress in 
     our state; now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-
     third General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate 
     concurring herein:
       That all resolutions, memorials, or other enactments 
     previously passed by the Colorado General Assembly or either 
     house thereof petitioning Congress for a convention under 
     Article V of the United States Constitution shall be 
     rescinded, cancelled, voided, nullified, and superseded upon 
     passage of this resolution. Be it further
       Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent, 
     within 30 days of passage, to the Clerk of the United States 
     House of Representatives, the Secretary of the United States 
     Senate, and each member of the Colorado Congressional 
     delegation; and be it further
       Resolved, That the members of the Colorado General Assembly 
     request that this Joint Resolution be published in the 
     Congressional Record and listed in the official tally of 
     state legislative applications relating to calling for the 
     United States Congress to call a convention to propose 
     amendments to the United States Constitution.
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       POM-18. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature 
     of the State of West Virginia urging the United States 
     Congress to call a convention of the states, under the 
     authority reserved to the states in Article V of the United 
     States Constitution, limited to proposing amendments to the 
     Constitution of the United States 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 or as a member of 
     the United States Senate; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

                   House Concurrent Resolution No. 9

       Whereas, The Legislature of West Virginia hereby makes an 
     application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the 
     Constitution of the United States, to call a convention 
     limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
     United States 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
       Whereas, 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
       Whereas, This application constitutes a continuing 
     application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution 
     of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-
     thirds of the several states have made applications on the 
     same subject; therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
       That the Legislature hereby urges Congress to call a 
     convention of the states, under the authority reserved to the 
     states in Article V of the United States Constitution, 
     limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the 
     United States 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 or as a member of the United States Senate; 
     and, be it further
       Resolved, That the Clerk of the House is hereby directed to 
     forward copies of this resolution to 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 the members of the said Senate and House of 
     Representatives from this state; also to forward copies 
     thereof to the presiding officers of each of the legislative 
     houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation.
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       POM-19. A petition from a citizen of the State of Texas 
     relative to American Rescue Plan Act relief funds; to the 
     Committee on Finance

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