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Debates in the Senate on the Seventeenth Amendment, 1911

April–July 1911. The Senate's debates on the House's joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) proposing the Seventeenth Amendment: every item headed “Election of Senators by Direct Vote” or “Election of Senators by the People” in which the Senate took it up, and the few under other headings the Record's index lists, as printed in the Congressional Record, from April 17 to July 14, 1911, with the vote of June 12.

34 items3,081 paragraphs184k words
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    April 17, 1911

    5 paragraphs1 min
  2. 2

    April 17, 1911 (2)

    67 paragraphs14 min
  3. 3

    April 17, 1911 (3)

    49 paragraphs5 min
  4. 4

    April 20, 1911

    18 paragraphs5 min
  5. 5

    May 1, 1911

    19 paragraphs3 min
  6. 6

    May 4, 1911

    25 paragraphs4 min
  7. 7

    May 8, 1911

    48 paragraphs8 min
  8. 8

    May 8, 1911 (2)

    28 paragraphs3 min
  9. 9

    May 9, 1911

    18 paragraphs3 min
  10. 10

    May 15, 1911

    22 paragraphs4 min
  11. 11

    May 15, 1911 (2)

    9 paragraphs2 min
  12. 12

    May 16, 1911

    23 paragraphs11 min
  13. 13

    May 17, 1911

    6 paragraphs1 min
  14. 14

    May 22, 1911

    52 paragraphs18 min
  15. 15

    May 22, 1911 (2)

    6 paragraphs1 min
  16. 16

    May 23, 1911

    268 paragraphs62 min
  17. 17

    May 24, 1911

    297 paragraphs78 min
  18. 18

    May 24, 1911 (2)

    31 paragraphs9 min
  19. 19

    May 25, 1911

    4 paragraphs1 min
  20. 20

    May 25, 1911 (2)

    133 paragraphs19 min
  21. 21

    May 26, 1911

    4 paragraphs1 min
  22. 22

    June 7, 1911

    194 paragraphs62 min
  23. 23

    June 8, 1911

    76 paragraphs18 min
  24. 24

    June 12, 1911

    1124 paragraphs351 min
  25. 25

    June 13, 1911

    291 paragraphs65 min
  26. 26

    June 13, 1911 (2)

    78 paragraphs9 min
  27. 27

    June 16, 1911

    20 paragraphs6 min
  28. 28

    June 21, 1911

    23 paragraphs8 min
  29. 29

    June 22, 1911

    10 paragraphs3 min
  30. 30

    June 27, 1911

    29 paragraphs3 min
  31. 31

    July 5, 1911

    41 paragraphs9 min
  32. 32

    July 7, 1911

    40 paragraphs9 min
  33. 33

    July 12, 1911

    9 paragraphs3 min
  34. 34

    July 14, 1911

    14 paragraphs4 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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