About the resolution
Donald Trump won the presidency with a 306 to 232 Electoral College advantage, or 56.8% of the electoral votes. Yet Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a margin currently tallied at more than 2.3 million votes, or50.9 percent of the two-party vote. This is the second time in five presidential election this has occurred, with the infamous 2000 recount giving George W. Bush the presidency despite Al Gore winning 50.2 percent of the two-party vote.
A proposal introduced by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) would end the Electoral College and determine the president by a straight popular vote.
What the proposal does
Boxer is proposing a constitutional amendment to elect both the president and vice president by a national popular vote. The Electoral College would be …
Sponsor and status
114th Congress (2015–2017)
This resolution was introduced on November 15, 2016, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
3 Cosponsors (3 Democrats)
Position statements
History
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Nov 15, 2016
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Introduced
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S.J.Res. 41 (114th) was a joint resolution in the United States Congress.
A joint resolution is often used in the same manner as a bill. If passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and signed by the President, it becomes a law. Joint resolutions are also used to propose amendments to the Constitution.
Resolutions numbers restart every two years. That means there are other resolutions with the number S.J.Res. 41. This is the one from the 114th Congress.
This joint resolution was introduced in the 114th Congress, which met from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 3, 2017. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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