Okay, so I was cruising through
Thomas to get a picture of our Federal Government inaction, and because I heard a mention on Ray Taliaferro's show about proposed election reform legislation; it was at 2:30 in the morning and I was half asleep, so I wanted to research it.
Lo and behold, I found the following little tidbit:
23. H.J.RES.24 : Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
Sponsor: Rep Hoyer, Steny H. [MD-5] (introduced 2/17/2005) Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
So what, you ask? See below the fold...
For those of us who haven't read the Constitution in the last couple of years, here is the text of the 22nd Amendment.
The 22nd Amendment
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Ratification was completed on February 27, 1951.
Co-sponsors:
Rep Berman, Howard L. [CA-28] - 2/17/2005
Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. [NJ-6] - 2/17/2005
Rep Sabo, Martin Olav [MN-5] - 2/17/2005
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] - 2/17/2005
Okay, so this probably has zero chance in hell of passing...but then again, considering how the red states are so fond of Bush, regardless of how cruddy he's made their lives, and add in the Religious Reich rallying the troops around "God's anointed leader", who knows what could happen?
Maybe the real lesson behind this is that it pays to keep an eye on the bastards back in DC; you never know what they're trying to pull behind our backs.