[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5534]
[From the U.S. 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 concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature 
     of the State of North Dakota urging the United States 
     Congress to call for a constitutional convention for the sole 
     purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
     United States which requires a balanced federal budget; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.

                    House Concurrent Resolution 3015

       Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States 
     mandates that upon the application of the legislatures of 
     two-thirds of the states, Congress shall call a convention 
     for proposing amendments; and
       Whereas, this application is to be considered as covering 
     the balanced budget amendment language of the presently 
     outstanding balanced budget applications from other states; 
     and
       Whereas, this application shall be aggregated for the 
     purpose of attaining the two-thirds necessary to require the 
     calling of a convention for proposing a balanced budget 
     amendment, but shall not be aggregated with any applications 
     on any other subject; and
       Whereas, this application is a continuing application until 
     the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have 
     made applications on the same subject; and
       Whereas, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly deems an 
     amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring 
     a balanced federal budget to be necessary for the good of the 
     American people: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the House of Representatives of North Dakota, 
     the Senate concurring therein:
       That the Sixty-fourth Legislative Assembly urges the 
     Congress of the United States to call a convention of the 
     states limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
     of the United States requiring that in the absence of a 
     national emergency the total of all federal appropriations 
     made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the 
     total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, 
     together with any related and appropriate fiscal restraints; 
     and be it further
       Resolved, That the Secretary of State forward copies of 
     this resolution to the President and Secretary of the Senate 
     and the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives of 
     the Congress, to each member of the United States 
     Congressional Delegation, and also to transmit copies to the 
     presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the 
     United States, requesting their cooperation.
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       POM-18. A resolution adopted by the Legislature of Rockland 
     County, New York, calling for the United States Department of 
     Transportation to immediately turn its attention to 
     increasing the strictness of the regulations that govern rail 
     transport of hazardous liquids; to the Committee on Commerce, 
     Science, and Transportation.

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