The Senate committees decide which bills, of any kind (statute and Constitutional Amendment alike) go to the Senate floor.
Ratify
Amendments to the United States Constitution can be proposed by either a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a national convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures. Once proposed, amendments must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of states to become part of the Constitution.
The hopper is the box on the senate or house floor where new legislation--or amendments to previous proposed legislation--is turned into the cloak room. Modernly, documents are filed electronically.
This was the "Contract with America" bill that proposed a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It was sponsored by Representative Joe Barton, Texas Republican, 4 January 1995. Referred to committee, 90 amendments were proposed. It passed the house 26 January 1995, but failed in the Senate 2 March 1995.
It shall not effect the 1st and 4th clause in Article I section 9 of the constitution, and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.
Amendments to the United States Constitution can be proposed by either a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a national convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures. Once proposed, an amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of states to become part of the Constitution.
The Senate usually allows unlimited debate on proposed legislation!
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
Congress may propose an amendment if it has been approved by a two thirds vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It may also be proposed by a national convention called for by two thirds of the states Legislatures>
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Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered. Such amendments may be proposed by the United States Congress or by a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states. To become valid, amendments must then be ratified by either the legislatures of or ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the several states, and may not deny any state its equal right to vote in the Senate without its consent.