[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Pages 23914-23915]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           CHANGING DATE FOR COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES IN 2001

  Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent 
that the Senate now proceed to the immediate consideration of S.J. Res. 
55 introduced earlier today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the joint resolution by 
title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 55) to change the date for 
     counting electoral votes in 2001.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent 
that the joint resolution be read the third time and passed, the motion 
to reconsider be laid upon the table, and any statements relating to 
the resolution be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 55) was read the third time and 
passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 55

       Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, The 
     Senate and House of

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     Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of 
     Representatives at the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon on 
     the 5th day of January, 2001, and the President of the Senate 
     shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be 
     previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the 
     part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be 
     handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, 
     all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates 
     of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall 
     be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical 
     order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said 
     tellers, having then read the same in the presence and 
     hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as 
     they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes 
     having been ascertained and counted in the manner and 
     according to the rules by law provided, the result of the 
     same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who 
     shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which 
     announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the 
     persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the 
     United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be 
     entered on the Journals of the two Houses.

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