TO THE
HONORABLE BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF
THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE
AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND
TO THE ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES:
We,
your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and
petition as follows:
BE IT
RESOLVED, THAT the Legislature of the State of Washington, pursuant to Article
V of the United States Constitution, hereby postratifies an amendment to that
document proposed by the very first Congress of the United States, sitting in
the City of New York on September 25, 1789, which amendment reads as follows:
"AMENDMENT
XXVII
No
law, varying the compensation for the services of the [United States] Senators
and [United States] Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of
[United States] Representatives shall have intervened."; and
THAT,
The Legislature of the State of Washington acknowledges that the constitutional
amendment in question has received the approval of the legislatures of the
following states on the dates indicated:
Maryland
on December 19, 1789 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6831-2);
North
Carolina, first, on December 22, 1789 (138 Cong. Rec. S6832-3);
and then a second time on June 30, 1989 (139 Cong. Rec. S22);
South
Carolina on January 19, 1790 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6833);
Delaware
on January 28, 1790 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6833-4);
Vermont
on November 3, 1791 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6834);
Virginia
on December 15, 1791 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6834-5);
Ohio
on May 6, 1873 (138 Cong.
Rec. S6835-6);
Wyoming
on March 3, 1978 (124 Cong.
Rec. 7910, 8265-6; 133 Cong.
Rec. 25418-9; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6836);
Maine
on April 27, 1983 (130 Cong.
Rec. 24320, 25007-8; 138 Cong. Rec. S6836-7);
Colorado
on April 18, 1984 (131 Cong.
Rec. 36505; 132 Cong.
Rec. 22146; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6837);
South
Dakota on February 21, 1985 (131 Cong.
Rec. 4299, 5815; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6837);
New
Hampshire on March 7, 1985 (131 Cong.
Rec. 5987, 6689; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6837);
Arizona
on April 3, 1985 (131 Cong.
Rec. 8057; 9443; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6838);
Tennessee
on May 23, 1985 (131 Cong.
Rec. 21277, 22264, 27963; 138 Cong. Rec. S6838);
Oklahoma
on July 10, 1985 (131 Cong.
Rec. 22898, 27963-4; 138 Cong. Rec. S6114-5,
S6506, S6838);
New
Mexico on February 13, 1986 (132 Cong.
Rec. 3649, 3956-7, 4077; 138 Cong. Rec. S6838);
Indiana
on February 19, 1986 (132 Cong.
Rec. 6638, 8284; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6839);
Utah on February 25, 1986
(132 Cong. Rec. 12480, 13834-5; 133 Cong. Rec. 31424; 138 Cong.
Rec. S6839);
Arkansas on March 5, 1987
(134 Cong. Rec. 12562, 14023; 138 Cong. Rec. S6839);
Montana on March 11, 1987
(133 Cong. Rec. 7428, 11618-9; 138 Cong. Rec. S6839-40);
Connecticut on May 13, 1987
(133 Cong. Rec. 23571, 23648-9; 138 Cong. Rec. S6840);
Wisconsin on June 30, 1987
(133 Cong. Rec. 23649, 24957, 25417, 26159-60; 138 Cong. Rec. S6840);
Georgia on February 2, 1988
(134 Cong. Rec. 9155, 9525; 138 Cong. Rec. S6840);
West Virginia on March 10,
1988 (134 Cong. Rec. 8569, 8752; 138 Cong. Rec. S6840-1);
Louisiana on July 6, 1988
(134 Cong. Rec. 18470, 18760; 138 Cong. Rec. S6841);
Iowa on February 7, 1989
(135 Cong. Rec. 5171, 5821; 138 Cong. Rec. S6841);
Idaho on March 23, 1989 (135 Cong. Rec. 9140, 14572-3; 138 Cong. Rec. S6842);
Nevada on April 26, 1989
(135 Cong. Rec. 9996, 19926-7; 138 Cong. Rec. S6842);
Alaska on May 5, 1989 (135 Cong. Rec. 14816, 19782; 138 Cong. Rec. S6842);
Oregon on May 19, 1989 (135 Cong. Rec. 20442, 20519-20, 21589, 22413; 138 Cong. Rec. S6841);
Minnesota on May 22, 1989
(135 Cong. Rec. 13623, 14147, 14475, 14573; 138 Cong. Rec. S6842-3);
Texas on May 25, 1989 (135 Cong. Rec. 11818, 11900-1; 138 Cong. Rec. S6843);
Kansas on April 5, 1990 (136 Cong. Rec. H1689, S9170, 12550-1; 138 Cong. Rec. S6843-4);
Florida on May 31, 1990 (136 Cong. Rec. H5198, S10091; 138 Cong. Rec. S6844);
North Dakota on March 25,
1991 (137 Cong. Rec. H2261, S10949; 138 Cong. Rec. S6844-5);
Missouri during the a.m.
hours of May 5, 1992 (138 Cong. Rec. H3924, S6845, S14974,
E1532-3, E1634, E1651);
Alabama during the p.m.
hours of May 5, 1992 (138 Cong. Rec. H3729, H3739, S6845,
S8387);
Michigan during the a.m.
hours of May 7, 1992 (138 Cong. Rec. H3093, S6845-6, S7026);
New Jersey during the p.m.
hours of May 7, 1992 (138 Cong. Rec. S6846);
Illinois on May 12, 1992
(138 Cong. Rec. H3729, H3739, S6846, S8387-8);
California on June 26, 1992
(138 Cong. Rec. H10100, S18271, E2237);
Rhode Island on June 10,
1993 (139 Cong Rec. H4681, S9981-2); and
Hawaii on April 29, 1994
(140 Cong. Rec. H3791, S7956); and
THAT, The Legislature of the
State of Washington further acknowledges: That the constitutional amendment in
question became Amendment XXVII to the United States Constitution during the
a.m. hours of May 7, 1992, when the Legislature of the State of Michigan became
the thirty-eighth state legislature to ratify it; that on May 18, 1992, the
Archivist of the United States issued a proclamation published in the Federal Register concluding that the two hundred four-year-old
proposal had, in fact, been incorporated into the United States Constitution;
and that on May 20, 1992, both the United States Senate and the United States
House of Representatives, by roll-call votes, adopted resolutions agreeing with
the Archivist's conclusion; and
THAT, While the Legislature
of the State of Washington is quite aware of this constitutional amendment's
success in already having become part of the United States Constitution, it is
important that the stamp-of-approval of the State of Washington be placed
thereon and that the Legislature of the State of Washington join the
legislatures of the forty-three other states that have already given their
assent to what is now Amendment XXVII.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to
the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the United States, the Archivist of
the United States (pursuant to P.L. 98-497), the President of the United States
Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of
Congress from the State of Washington, with the request that this joint
memorial's text be reprinted in its entirety in the Congressional Record.
