[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 66-67]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




TO PROVIDE FOR THE COUNTING ON JANUARY 6, 2017, OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES 
         FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following 
privileged concurrent resolution:

                             S. Con. Res. 2

       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in 
     the Hall of the House of Representatives on Friday, the 6th 
     day of January 2017, at 1 o'clock post meridian, pursuant to 
     the requirements of the Constitution and laws relating to the 
     election of President and Vice President of the United 
     States, and the President of the Senate shall be their 
     Presiding Officer; that two

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     tellers shall be previously appointed by the President of the 
     Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker 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 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.

  The concurrent resolution was concurred in.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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