Expressing the sense of Congress that Congress and the States should consider a constitutional amendment to reform the Electoral College and establish a process for electing the President and Vice President by a national popular vote and should encourage individual States to continue to reform the Electoral College process through such steps as the formation of an interstate compact to award the majority of Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

H. Con. Res. 79 · 115th Congress · Sep 14, 2017 · Lineage

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

That it is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

Congress and the States should consider a constitutional amendment to reform the Electoral College and establish a process for electing the President and Vice President by a national popular vote; and

(2)

Congress should encourage the States to continue to reform the Electoral College process through such steps as the formation of an interstate compact to award the majority of Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

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Sep 14, 2017viewing Introduced in House Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Blumenauer, and Mr. Gutiérrez) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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