A concurrent resolution to provide for the counting on January 6, 2017, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.

Bill: 115-sconres-2
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress

Congressional operations and organization

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Provides for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States. </p>

action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Passed House without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</p> <p>Provides for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States. </p>

tv_txt: III 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. CON. RES. 2 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 3, 2017 Mr. McConnell submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was considered and agreed to CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To provide for the counting on January 6, 2017, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.

That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Friday, the 6th day of January 2017, 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 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.

tv_txt: One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 1st Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen S. CON. RES. 2 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 3, 2017 Agreed to CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To provide for the counting on January 6, 2017, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.

That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Friday, the 6th day of January 2017, 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 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.

Secretary of the Senate Clerk of the House of Representatives

tv_txt: 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. CON. RES. 2 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES CONCURRENT RESOLUTION To provide for the counting on January 6, 2017, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.

That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Friday, the 6th day of January 2017, 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 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.

Passed the Senate January 3, 2017. Secretary