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Debates in the House of Representatives on the Seventeenth Amendment, 1911

April–July 1911. The House of Representatives' debates on the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) proposing the Seventeenth Amendment in the first session of the Sixty-second Congress: every item headed with its subject (“Election of Senators”, “Election of Senators by the People”) in which the House took it up, as printed in the Congressional Record, from the vote of April 13 to July 15, 1911.

6 items1,987 paragraphs123k words
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    April 13, 1911

    1175 paragraphs300 min
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    June 20, 1911

    4 paragraphs2 min
  3. 3

    June 21, 1911

    754 paragraphs224 min
  4. 4

    June 21, 1911 (2)

    19 paragraphs3 min
  5. 5

    July 5, 1911

    8 paragraphs1 min
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    July 15, 1911

    27 paragraphs5 min

Text of Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the 62nd Congress, 1st session, vol. 47 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911), the bound edition, read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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