H.J.Res.73 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the process by which the House of Representatives chooses the President of the United States in the event no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes.

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  • Official: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the process by which the House of Representatives chooses the President of the United States in the event no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes. as introduced.

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12/18/2007--Introduced.Constitutional Amendment - States that whenever the right to choose the President devolves upon the House of Representatives, the Members of the House shall cast votes on an individual basis, and the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes cast by the Member

Official Summary

12/18/2007--Introduced.
Constitutional Amendment - States that whenever the right to choose the President devolves upon the House of Representatives, the Members of the House shall cast votes on an individual basis, and the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes cast by the Members shall be the President so long as such number is a majority of the votes cast.


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12/27/08
Contract with America - Windows Live

An amendment to the Constitution that would have imposed 12-year term limits on members of the US Congress (i.e. six terms for Representatives, two terms for Senators). H.J.Res.73 rejected by the US House 227-204 (a constitutional ...

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11/24/08
John Mica Must Go: Un-Masking John Mica

H.J.Res.73[7] rejected by the U.S. House 227-204 (a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority, not a simple majority), 3/29/95; RC #277. If you look at the roll call vote, Mica voted Yes to the 12-year term limit. ...

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10/13/08
Defeat John Mica » Blog Archive » The 1994 “Republican Revolution ...

H.J.Res.73. This is what John Mica was for in 1994. If he had the honesty to follow the principals that he championed so vociferously in 1994 he would have retired from office in 2006…just more evidence that proves just how disengenuous ...

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