Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit the President from making recess appointments.

Constitutional Amendment

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the President from filling any vacancy during the recess of the Senate.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 96

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
        prohibit the President from making recess appointments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 5, 2016

Mr. Collins of New York (for himself, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. 
Olson, Mr. Bishop of Michigan, and Mr. LaMalfa) submitted the following 
 joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
        prohibit the President from making recess appointments.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``The President shall not have the power to fill up any vacancy 
during the recess of the Senate.''.
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