Amendment XX, Section 2
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
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- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 12, 1932, ¶ 230
The Congress shall assemble at least once · in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on ~he 2d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the Senate joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 12, 1932, ¶ 294
· The Congress shall assemble at least once i.n every year, and such meet i n g sh a ll begin a t noon on the 4th day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day."
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 12, 1932, ¶ 429
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of an amendment offered in an earlier session (the Longworth amendment); this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 12, 1932, ¶ 465
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the proposed amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 432
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 438
That the Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday 1n January, unless they shall by law appoint another day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of a joint resolution of 1923 proposing a like amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 538
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 540
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, yield?
The paragraph gives the words of a substitute offered for section 2; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 645
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January, unless by concurrent action of both Houses of Congress a different day is appointed.
The paragraph gives the words of a substitute offered for section 2; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932 (2), ¶ 39
This amendment further provides that Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meetings shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January in · each year unless Congress shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph sets out section 2 of the proposed amendment largely in its words; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, March 1, 1932, ¶ 12
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by la'Y appoint a different ' SEC.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 as agreed in conference; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 5
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 4th day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the House amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 21
The Congress shall assemble at least once a year, and such meeting shall begin at noon.
The paragraph reads out the words of section 2 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 26
Let me call the attention of the Senator to the fact that the sentence begins "The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting "-that is, the assembling, the coming together-" shall be at noon on the 2d day of January." That is the sense of the sentence, and it occurs to me the…
The paragraph quotes the opening words of section 2 of the joint resolution; they appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 35
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year.
The paragraph gives the words of the substitute for section 2 offered in the House; they appear unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 36
In other words, the year following the presidential election- · - · such meeting shall be on th~ 4th day of January unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of the substitute for section 2 offered in the House; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 300
The Congress shall assemble at least once 1n every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 2d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of the joint resolution as amended; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, March 2, 1932, ¶ 8
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different "' SEc.
The paragraph gives the words of section 2 as agreed in conference; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment.
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