[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2872]
[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-133. A petition by a citizen from the State of Texas 
     urging the United States Congress to propose, for 
     ratification by special conventions held within the 
     individual states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would require that at least one of the two 
     houses of Congress approve, by majority vote of all members 
     elected and serving in that body, a reprieve or pardon 
     granted by the President of the United States to a person 
     earlier having been properly found guilty of committing an 
     offense against the United States; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       POM-134. A petition by a citizen from the State of Texas 
     urging the United States Congress to propose, for 
     ratification by special conventions held within the 
     individual states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would authorize Congress, by a simple 
     majority vote in both houses thereof, to nullify an Executive 
     Order of the President; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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