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The 72nd Congress proposed the Twentieth Amendment on March 2, 1932, and the amendment was ratified by the following states. [7] The Amendment was adopted on January 23, 1933, after 36 states, being three-fourths of the then-existing 48 states, ratified the Amendment.
That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [ 4 ] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
A balanced budget amendment, in which Congress and the President are forced to balance the budget every year, has been introduced many times, [44] dating back to the 1930s. [45] No measure passed either body of Congress until 1982, when the Senate took 11 days to consider it and gained the necessary two-thirds majority. [45]
Members of Congress spent the past 12 months ensuring that this session would be one for the history books. It was punctuated with the first removal of a House speaker, the first interim speaker ...
The Twentieth Amendment may refer to the: Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1933), established some details of presidential succession and of the beginning and ending of the terms of elected federal officials; Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India (1966), relating to the appointment of judiciary
A post shared on X claims that former President Joe Biden ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment. Biden declared that the ERA was part of the Constitution as the 28th ...
A letter from more than 120 House Democrats, led by now-former Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, called on Biden to demand that the archivist publish the amendment.. Both houses of Congress ...
On February 20, 1933, another repealing amendment was voted on, this time prevailing in Congress. It thereafter was submitted to conventions in each state for ratification. It was ultimately ratified by December 1933, becoming the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. [24]