April 4, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 59 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Page H3102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       5. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Council of the 
     District of Columbia, relative to Resolution 23-47, declaring 
     the sense of the Council that the District of Columbia is 
     committed to promoting the human rights and well-being of all 
     its residents, workers, and visitors; and to call on the 
     federal government to prevent nuclear war; to the Committee 
     on Oversight and Reform.
       6. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory D. Watson, a citizen of 
     Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress to enact legislation 
     that would prohibit Members of Congress and State Legislators 
     from serving as delegates to a convention the purpose of 
     which would be to ratify an already-drafted and already-
     proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, 
     pursuant to the Constitution's Article V, if Congress 
     specifies the convention mode of ratification, as occurred in 
     the year 1933; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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