Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the attendance of Senators and Representatives at sessions of the Congress.

Summary

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that if during any period of one or more consecutive sessions of the Congress, an individual holding the office of Senator or Representative fails to be recorded in person on two hundred yea-and-nay rollcall votes taken during such period or sixty percent of the yea-and-nay rollcall votes taken during such period, whichever is less, such office becomes vacant, and the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall notify the executive authority of the State from which such individual was elected of the vacancy. Excludes any yea-or-nay rollcall vote of the Congress occurring on or after this article is ratified.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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