Senate Joint Memorial 9 - Oregon Laws 1999

Session Law

To the President of the United States and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled:

We, your memorialists, the Seventieth Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent as follows:

Whereas Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides for the proposal of amendments to the Constitution of the United States by two-thirds concurrence of the members of both houses of Congress; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:

(1) The Congress of the United States is respectfully requested to disregard calls for a constitutional convention on balancing the federal budget because there exists no guarantee that a federal constitutional convention, once convened, could be limited to the subject of a balanced federal budget, and therefore such a convention may intrude into other constitutional revisions.

(2) This memorial supersedes all previous memorials from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon requesting the Congress of the United States to call a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that would require a balanced federal budget, including Senate Joint Memorial 2 (1977), and therefore any similar memorials previously submitted are hereby withdrawn.

(3) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States and to each member of the Oregon Congressional Delegation.

Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 17, 1999

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