Commencement of Terms of Office of the President and Members of Congress: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 71 ... April 24, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 231 páginas |
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... December could be used to improve the scheduling of congressional functions . Ostensibly , both Houses of the Congress could utilize this time to organize themselves and prepare for the heavier legislative workload which usually begins ...
... December could be used to improve the scheduling of congressional functions . Ostensibly , both Houses of the Congress could utilize this time to organize themselves and prepare for the heavier legislative workload which usually begins ...
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... December of each year . As a result , a Congress elected in an even - numbered year would first come into session in December of the next ( odd - numbered ) year , and 8.
... December of each year . As a result , a Congress elected in an even - numbered year would first come into session in December of the next ( odd - numbered ) year , and 8.
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... December of the following ( even - numbered ) year , after the succeeding Congress had already been elected . Before 1933 , in other words , the last session of every Congress was a " lame duck " session that lasted no more than four ...
... December of the following ( even - numbered ) year , after the succeeding Congress had already been elected . Before 1933 , in other words , the last session of every Congress was a " lame duck " session that lasted no more than four ...
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... December 16. A normal schedule of daily meetings was in general followed throughout the period , except during a brief period near the election , when Congress met every third day . The knowledge that the 78th Congress , to begin in ...
... December 16. A normal schedule of daily meetings was in general followed throughout the period , except during a brief period near the election , when Congress met every third day . The knowledge that the 78th Congress , to begin in ...
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... December , quorums had become difficult to obtain and leaders of both parties agreed that nothing further could be brought before Congress until January , when the 78th Congress was to convene . 78TH CONGRESS , 2D SESSION -- 1944 In ...
... December , quorums had become difficult to obtain and leaders of both parties agreed that nothing further could be brought before Congress until January , when the 78th Congress was to convene . 78TH CONGRESS , 2D SESSION -- 1944 In ...
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Página 140 - Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice may have devolved upon them...
Página 140 - President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly...
Página 140 - SECTION 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Página 4 - Presidential electoral system. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 3 (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the...
Página 140 - If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice-President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the...
Página 146 - ... from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified. If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate...
Página 146 - ... and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision ; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision ; and no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been...
Página 146 - 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 according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate...
Página 147 - Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result declared ; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this act, in...
Página 147 - That when the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or...