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The Honorable Karen Haas

Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (114th Congress), I hereby designate the
attached Memorial from the State of Virginia, received by the House of Representatives in the
year 2004, as purporting to be a rescission of the State legislature calling for a convention, or
conventions, for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to
Article V, and request that you make it publicly available.

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2004 SESSION
ENROLLED

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 194

Rescinding and withdrawing all past resolutions of the General Assembly applying to the Congress of
the United States to call a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 10, 2004
Agreed to by the Senate, March 9, 2004

WHEREAS, there has been no convention convened to amend the Constitution of the United States,
and all amendments adopted to date have been initiated by two-thirds of the members of both houses of
Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states; and

WHEREAS, the operations of a convention are unknown and the apportionment and selection of
delegates, method of voting in convention, and other essential procedural details are not specified in
Article V of the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Virginia has not called for a convention to amend the
Constitution of the United States in the recent past, but in the more distant past has called for a
convention (i) by House Joint Resolution No. 168 in 1977 concerning a presidential item veto, (ii) by
the second resolved clause of Senate Joint Resolution No. 36 in 1976 concerning a balanced budget, and
(iii) by other resolutions applying to the Congress to:call a convention; and

WHEREAS, the status of these past resolutions is unclear and the prudent course requires the
General Assembly to rescind and withdraw all past applications for a convention to amend the
Constitution of the United States lest a convention be convened without current and careful
consideration; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly of
Virginia rescinds and withdraws all past resolutions by the General Assembly applying to the Congress
of the United States to call a convention for the purpose of amending the Constitution of the United
States including HJR No. 168 (1977), SJR No. 36 (1976), and all other resolutions calling for a
convention; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates transmit certified copies of this
joint resolution to the Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records
Administration of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives, and the members of the Virginia delegation to the United States Senate
and House of Representatives.

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