Assertion: proposed amendment | /r/HasProperty | approved by a two-thirds majority
Facets:
value: from 1995
type: TEMPORAL
value: biennially
type: TEMPORAL
value: in each
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The other method for amending the Constitution (the one employed with every amendment so far proposed or enacted) requires that the proposed amendment be approved by both houses of Congress (i.e., the Senate and the House of Representatives) by a two-thirds majority in each, and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.
text: From 1995 to 2005, beginning with the 104th Congress, the proposed amendment was approved biennially by the two-thirds majority necessary in the U.S. House of Representatives, but it consistently failed to achieve the same constitutionally required super-majority vote in the U.S. Senate.