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national emergency that the total of all federal appropriations
made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the
total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, alternatively the
Alabama Legislature makes application and requests that the
Congress of the United States call a constitutional convention,
pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States,
for the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an amend-
ment to the Federal Constitution requiring in the absence of a
national emergency that the total of all federal appropriations
made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the
total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the legislatures of each of
the several states comprising the United States are urged to
apply to the Congress requesting the enactment of an appro-
priate amendment to the Federal Constitution; or requiring the
Congress to call a constitutional convention for proposing such
amendment to the Federal Constitution.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House _is
Giregted to send copies of this Joint Resolution to the Secretary
of State and presiding officers of both Houses of the Legisla-
tures of each of the other States in the Union, the Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., and
the Secretary of the United States Senate, Washington, D. C.,
and to each member of the Alabama Congressional Delegation.

Approved August 18, 1976.
Time: 6:30 P.M.

Act No. 303 H.J.R. 275—Kinsey, McMillan
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

NAMING THE NEW INTERCOSTAL CANAL BRIDGE ON
HIGHWAY 59 IN BALDWIN COUNTY THE “DR. W. C.
HOLMES BRIDGE”

WHEREAS, Dr. William C. Holmes received his B.S. Degree
from the University of Alabama and his M.D. Degree from

Tulane University; and
WHEREAS, Dr. W. C. Holmes, who practiced medicine in

Foley, Alabama from 1925 until his death in May, 1961, founded
Sibley Holmes Memorial Hospital in 1933; and :

WHEREAS, Dr. Holes, who became the first Medical Direct,
or of South Baldwin Hospital, was elected to the Alabama Staté



BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin
LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas
‘STEVE CHABOT, Ohio
DARRELL E. ISSA, California
STEVE KING, lowa

TRENT FRANKS, Arizona
LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas
JIM JORDAN, Ohio

TED POE, Texas

JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah
TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania
TREY GOWDY, South Carolina
RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho
BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas
DOUG COLLINS, Georgia
RON DeSANTIS, Florida
KEN BUCK, Colorado

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas
MARTHA ROBY, Alabama
MATT GAETZ, Florida

MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana
ANDY BIGGS, Arizona

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 RAYBURN House OFFice BUILDING

WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6216

(202) 225-3951
httpy/www.house.govijudiciary

May 15, 2017

The Honorable Karen Haas
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Capitol, Room H154
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
RANKING MEMBER

JERROLD NADLER, New York
ZOE LOFGREN, California

SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas

STEVE COHEN, Tennessee

HENRY C. “HANK” JOHNSON, JR., Georgia
TED DEUTCH, Florida

LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois

KAREN BASS, California

CEDRIC L. RICHMOND, Louisiana

HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island

ERIC SWALWELL, California

TED LIEU, California

JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland

PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington

BRAD SCHNEIDER, Illinois

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Alabama, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1979, as
purporting to be an application of the State legislature calling for a convention for proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to Article V, and request that you make it publicly

available.

Sincerely,

Jj lplute

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


ce

The State of Alabaner a -

DEPARTMENT OF STATE ven

Don Siegelman
I, MRS xAGNES BAGGERRT, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, do hereby certify that

the pages hereto attached, contain a true, accurate and literal copy of House Joint Resolution

227, Act No. 302, passed by the Legislature of Alabama and approved

by the Governor on August 18, 1976, petitioning the Congress of the

United States to convene a constitutional convention for the purpose

of proposing an amendment to the Constitution requiring that federal

spending not exceed estimated Federal revenues ,—

as the same appears on file and of record in this office.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the State, at the Capitol,

in the City of Montgomery, this___22nd

day mas One Thousand Nine
. a
Hundred and. e leyening’/’
Wha. Wide...
oT Secretary of State.



H.J.R. 227—Smith (C)

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

PETITIONING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES TO CONVENE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRING THAT FEDERAL SPEND-
ING NOT EXCEED ESTIMATED FEDERAL REVENUES.

WHEREAS, with each passing year this Nation becomes
more deeply in debt as its expenditures grossly and repeatedly
exceed available revenues, so that the public debt now exceeds

hundreds of billions of dollars; and

WHEREAS, the annual federal budget continually demon-
strates an unwillingness or inability of both the legislative and
executive branches of the federal government to curtail spending
to conform to available revenues; and

WHEREAS, unified budgets do not reflect actual spending
because of the exclusion of special outlays which are not in-
cluded in the budget nor subject to the legal public debt limit;

and

WHEREAS, knowledgeable planning, fiscal prudence, and
plain good sense require that the budget reflect all federal
spending and be in balance; and

WHEREAS, believing that fiscal irresponsibility at the
federal level, with the inflation which results from this policy,
is the greatest threat which faces our Nation, we firmly believe
that constitutional restraint is vital to bring the fiscal discipline
needed to restore financial responsibility; and

WHEREAS, there is provision in Article V of the Constitu-
tion of the United States for amending the Constitution by the
Congress, on the applicaion of the legislatures of two-thirds
(2/3) of the several states, calling a convention for proposing
amendments which shall be valid to all intents and purposes
when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths (3/4) of the
several states, or by conventions in three-fourth (3/4) thereof,
as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by

the Congress; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALA-
BAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That
the Legislature of Alabama hereby petitions the Congress of the
United States that procedures be instituted in the Congress to
add a new Article to the Constitution of the United States, and
that the Alabama Legislature requests the Congress to pre
pare and submit to the several states an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, requiring in the absence of a

Act No. 302