Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-01-03 - Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5-6; text: CR S6)
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Congress
Sponsors
8
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This resolution sets up a small Senate committee to meet with the President and let him know that both the Senate and the House have enough members present to do business. It is a formal first step that tells the President Congress is ready and can receive any message he wants to deliver.
- The committee will have two Senators.
- It will work together with a similar committee from the House of Representatives.
- The committee’s job is only to inform the President that Congress has a quorum and is ready to receive communication.
Official Summaries
This resolution establishes a committee to inform the President that a quorum of each chamber of Congress is assembled and that Congress is ready to receive communications from him.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 1 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 1
Establishing a Committee to Inform the President of the United States
that a quorum of each House is assembled.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Thune submitted the following resolution; which was considered and
agreed to
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RESOLUTION
Establishing a Committee to Inform the President of the United States
that a quorum of each House is assembled.
Resolved, That a committee consisting of two Senators be appointed
to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of
Representatives to wait upon the President of the United States and
inform him that a quorum of each House is assembled and that the
Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to
make.
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