[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 123, 111th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

123 STAT. 3497
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
FIRST SESSION, ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS


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123 STAT. 3499

<> JOINT SESSION--ELECTORAL VOTE
COUNT

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 Thursday, the 8th day of January 2009, 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 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
the 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.

Agreed to January 7, 2009.