[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16496-16497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       33. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Mr. Gregory D. 
     Watson, a citizen of Austin,

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     TX, relative to urging Congress to propose, for ratification 
     by the legislatures of the several states, an amendment to 
     the United States Constitution which would clarify that any 
     person chosen to be Speaker of the U.S. House of 
     Representatives must be an actual currently-serving member of 
     the U.S. House of Representatives; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       34. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory D. Watson, a citizen of 
     Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress to propose, for 
     ratification by special conventions held within the 
     individual states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would require that both houses of Congress 
     approve, by a three-fifths vote of all members elected and 
     serving in each body, any declaration of martial law, or 
     suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, by the President of 
     the United States, and further providing that such 
     Congressionally-approved martial law declaration, or 
     suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, not exceed 30 days' 
     duration, and clearly describe the geographic territory 
     covered by such declaration or suspension; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.

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