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107th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. CON. RES. 1
To provide for the counting on January 6, 2001, of the electoral votes
for President and Vice President of the United States.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 3, 2001
Mr. Daschle (for himself and Mr. Lott) submitted the following
concurrent resolution; which was considered and agreed to
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To provide for the counting on January 6, 2001, of the electoral votes
for President and Vice President of the United States.
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 Saturday, the sixth day of January 2001, 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.
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