808 GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN

F. JAMES SENSENGI
LAMAR S. SMITH,

NNER, JR., Wisconsin

DARRELL E, ISSA, California

STEVE KING, low.
TRENT FRANKS,
LOUIE GOMER’

JIM JORDAN, Ohio
TED POE, Texas

JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania
TREY GOWDY, South Carolina

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas
DAVE TROTT, Michigan
MIKE BISHOP, Michigan

ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS,

Congress of the Wnited States

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

WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6216
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http:/www.house.gov/judiciary

June 27, 2016

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,

IACKSON LEE
SOHEN, Tennes

(NK, DELBENE, Washington
HAKEEM 8. JEFFRIES, New York
DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island
SCOTT PETERS, Californ

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (114th Congress), I hereby designate the
attached Memorial from the State of Idaho, received by the House of Representatives in the year
1982, 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,

Jt bodlts-

Ob Goodlatte
Chairman


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, (First Regular Session

Legislature of the State of Idaho] [Forty-fifth Legislature

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IN THE “HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HOUSE __ CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 7 ges
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF REQUESTING APPROPRIATE ACTION BY THE

CONGRESS, EITHER ACTING BY CONSENT OF TWO-THIRDS OF BOTH

HOUSES OR, UPON THE APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURES OF

TWO-THIRDS OF THE SEVERAL STATES, . CALLING A

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT TO THE

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE, WITH CERTAIN

EXCEPTIONS, THAT THE TOTAL OF ALL FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

MAY NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL OF ALL ESTIMATED FEDERAL

REVENUES IN ANY FISCAL YEAR.

Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

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
demonstrates 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
included 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 necessary to
bring the fiscal discipline needed to restore financial
responsibility; and

WHEREAS, under Article V of the Constitution of the
United States, amendments to the Federal Constitution may be
proposed by the Congress whenever two-thirds of both Houses
deem it necessary, or on the application of the Legislatures
of two-thirds of the several states the Congress shall call
a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of proposing
amendments. We believe such action vital.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the
First Regular Session of the Forty-fifth Idaho Legislature,
the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring, that
the Legislature proposes to the Congress of the United



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States that procedures be instituted in the Congress to add
a new Article to the Constitution of the United States, and
that the legislature requests the Congress to prepare and
submit to the several states an amendment to the
constitution of the United States, 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; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, alternatively, the
Legislature makes application and requests that the Congress
of the United States call a Constitutional Convention for
the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment
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; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this application by this
Legislature constitutes a ‘continuing application in
accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United
States until at least two-thirds of the Legislatures of the
several states have made similar applications pursuant to
Article v, but if Congress proposes an amendment to the
Constitution identical in subject matter to that contained
in this resolution then this petition for a Constitutional
Convention shall no longer be of any force or effect; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this application and
request be deemed null and void, rescinded, and of no effect
in the event that such convention not be limited to such
specific and exclusive purpose;. and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Legislature also
proposes that the Legislatures of each of the several states
comprising the United States apply to the Congress
requesting the enactment of an appropriate amendment to the
Federal Constitution; or require the Congress to call a
Constitutional Convention for proposing such an amendment to
the Federal Constitution; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the House of
Representatives be and he is hereby directed to forward
copies of this resolution to the Secretary of State and
presiding officers of both Houses of the Legislatures of
each of the other States in the Union, the Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives, the President of the
United States Senate, and the members of the Congress of the
United States representing the State of Idaho. .