Summary
This concurrent resolution establishes the day, time, and manner for counting electoral votes for President and Vice President as January 6, 2025, at 1:00 pm. The concurrent resolution provides that the results of the count shall be delivered to the President of the Senate and entered on the journals of Congress.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 2 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. CON. RES. 2
To provide for the counting on January 6, 2025, of the electoral votes
for President and Vice President of the United States.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Thune submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was
considered and agreed to
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To provide for the counting on January 6, 2025, of the electoral votes
for President and Vice President of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),
That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of
Represenatives on Monday, the 6th day of January 2025, at 1 o'clock
post meridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and
laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the
United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their Presiding
Officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the
President of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the
Speaker on the part of the House of Represenatatives, to whom shall be
handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the
certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral
votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and
acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the
letter ``A''; and said tellers, having then read the same in the
presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes
as they shall appear from said certificates; and the votes having been
ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules by law
provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of
the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which
announcement shall be deemed a suffucient declaration of the persons,
if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and
together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the
two Houses.
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