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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 167 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency (of an economic or defense nature) requires such suspension.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 163 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for a single 6-year term for President and Vice President, to provide for 3-year terms for Representatives.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Extends the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years and prohibits any person from being elected to such offices more than once. Establishes three year terms of office for Members of the House of Representatives. Permits any person previously holding the office of President or Vice President for less than six years to hold such office under this amendment.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 159 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right to life to the unborn, the ill, the aged, or the incapacitated.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Extends due process and equal protection to an individual from the moment of conception. Prohibits the deprivation of human life on account of age, illness, or incapacity.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 155 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 149 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualification requisite and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which persons who received the highest number of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both President-elect and Vice-President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 150 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the term of office of Members of the House of Representatives shall be 4 years.

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that the House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every fourth year. Increases the term of office of a Representative to four years. Terminates the term of a Member of the House who is a candidate for a Senate term commencing in the calendar year in which a presidential term begins. Directs the executive authority of the State from which such Representative was chosen to issue writs of election for a special two-year term for a Member of the House to fill the vacancy created by the candidacy of such Member.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 8 (95th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Makes a person who is constitutionally ineligible for the office of President ineligible for the office of Vice President. Requires the voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, unless such legislature prescribes lesser qualifications with respect to residence therein. Authorizes Congress to prescribe voter qualifications for voters in the District of Columbia. Continues electoral vote allotments to States and the District of Columbia. Grants to the District of Columbia the number of electoral votes equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which such District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State. Directs the official custodian of the election returns of each State, within 45 days after the election, to make lists of all persons for whom votes were cast, the number of votes cast, and the total votes cast by the voters. Requires that each person for whom votes were cast in each State receive such proportion of the electoral votes as he received of the total votes cast in such State. Declares the person receiving the greatest aggregate number of electoral votes, if at least 40 percent of the total, to be President. Requires in case of a tie or no one receiving 40 percent or more that the Senate and House of Representatives choose, by ballot, the President and Vice President from the two highest electoral vote getters. Allows Congress to provide the method for choosing a President or Vice President whenever the right of choice had fallen upon the Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 145 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits any State to regulate or prohibit abortion.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 146 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 142 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. Authorizes the election of two Senators and the number of Representatives in the House to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Provides that this amendment shall have no effect upon the present system for selecting the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 148 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the busing or involuntary assignment of students.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - States that nothing in the Constitution shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order requiring or encouraging, or directing or permitting any funds to be used or withheld to require or encourage, the transportation or busing of students from one school to another or one school district to another or to force any student or students attending any elementary or secondary school in their own neighborhood, where such school is not established purposely to perpetuate segregation, to attend any other school against his or her choice, the choice of his or her parents, parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, express or implied, under the Constitution.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 138 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 144 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 140 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 147 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to participation in voluntary prayer or meditation in public buildings.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits persons to participate or to decline to participate in voluntary prayer or meditation in public buildings or places supported by public funds.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 143 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to public prayer and religious instruction.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public places or institutions. Permits religious instruction in public places or institutions if such instruction is given under private auspices.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 139 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 6 (95th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 133 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to abortion.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits abortion after the fetus' heart begins to beat except to save the life of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 125 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Empowers each State to choose electors for President and Vice President equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives the State is entitled to in Congress. Mandates the popular election of electors. Authorizes one elector to be chosen from each electoral district, and two electors to be chosen on a statewide basis. Requires that successor electors are bound to follow the declaration of voting intention that each elector must make. Stipulates that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by the elector shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. States that in case of a tie the person having a majority of votes cast by electors from electoral districts shall be President. Directs that in a situation of none receiving such a majority, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, each having one vote, shall choose the President and Vice President from the top three votegetters. Declares a person constitutionally ineligible to be President ineligible to be Vice President. Directs each State legislature to divide the State into electoral districts equal in size, with the number of districts equaling the State's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 130 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government, during any fiscal year, do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 19 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to five percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fifth year fiscal year.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 128 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the prompt election of a Vice President in cases of vacancy in the Office of Vice President by reason of the succession to the Office of President by a Vice President selected under the 25th amendment.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the prompt election of a Vice President whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President by reason of the succession to the office of President of a Vice President who was nominated and confirmed under the 25th Amendment.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 127 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires, unless Congress provides otherwise, that the voters for President and Vice President in each State have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 1 (95th)reported

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results for such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 2 (95th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that, except in time of war or economic emergency declared by the Congress, expenditures of the Government may not exceed the revenues of the Government during any fiscal year.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency requires such suspension.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 121 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the offering of prayer in public buildings.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 120 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 117 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the offering of prayer in public buildings.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public buildings.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 113 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that, except in time of war or economic emergency declared by the Congress, expenditures of the Government may not exceed the revenues of the Government during any fiscal year.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 118 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest number of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 114 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, Congress shall assemble in special session from which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, disability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 112 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to school busing.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment or transportation of children to a region beyond that covered by the neighborhood school, unless such assignment or transportation is voluntary. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 115 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 111 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the maintenance of neighborhood public schools.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits interpretation of the United States Constitution as requiring school systems which assign pupils on a neighborhood basis to assign such pupils in any other manner. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 50 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution to provide for the procurement and display in the Capitol of a facsimile of the Constitution of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1977

Directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to consult with the Architect of the Capitol for the purpose of procuring a bronze facsimile of the original documents of the Constitution of the United States which are deposited with the National Archives. States that these items are to be displayed in an appropriate place in the Capitol, and paid for out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.

Bill· HRH.R. 989 (95th)referred