[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20223]
[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:

       72. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Mr. Gregory Watson, 
     a citizen of Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress to 
     propose, pursuant to Article V, an amendment to the United 
     States Constitution that would, in addition to congressional 
     proposal, likewise allow an identically-worded suggested 
     federal constitutional amendment, approved by the 
     legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states, as 
     an alternate means of proposing future amendments and that 
     would further provide for a same-day nationwide referendum as 
     the exclusive method of ratifying any future amendments; thus 
     repealing all references to a national proposing convention, 
     repealing all references to ratifying conventions conducted 
     within the individual states, and repealing all references to 
     state legislative ratification; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       73. Also, a petition of the Yates County, New York, 
     Legislature, relative to Resolution No. 317-17, urging the 
     United States Congress to enact, and President Trump to sign 
     into law, H.R. 3576, the Second Amendment Guarantee Act; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.