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- 108th CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES AS INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE
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- S. J. Res. 15 2003 S.J. Res. 15; 108 S.J. Res. 15 Retrieve
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- SYNOPSIS
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- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States to make eligible for the Office of President a person
who has been a United States citizen for 20 years
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- DATE OF INTRODUCTION: July 10, 2003
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- 108th CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES AS INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE
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- S. J. Res. 15
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- 2003 S.J. Res. 15; 108 S.J. Res. 15
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- Retrieve Bill Tracking Report
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- SYNOPSIS: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States to make eligible for the Office of
President a person who has been a United States citizen for 20 years
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- DATE OF INTRODUCTION: July 10, 2003
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- SPONSOR(S): Sponsor and Cosponsors as of 07/14/2003 HATCH,
ORRIN G (R-UT) - Sponsor
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- TEXT: SJ 15 IS 108th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES.
15
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- Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been
a United States citizen for 20 years.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 10, 2003 Mr. Hatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- JOINT RESOLUTION
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- Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been
a United States citizen for 20 years.
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- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each
House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
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- "ArticleSec. --
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- "Section 1. A person who is a citizen of the United
States, who has been for 20 years a citizen of the United States, and who
is otherwise eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to
that Office by reason of not being a native born citizen of the United
States.
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- "Section 2. This article shall not take effect unless
it has been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures
of three-fourths of the several States not later than 7 years from the
date of its submission to the States by the Congress.".
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- SUBJECT: LEGISLATORS (88%);
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- LOAD-DATE: July 14, 2003
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- From "Strongman"
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- By Hendrik Hertzberg September 29 issue of The New Yorker.
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- "On October 8, 1993 - a day short of exactly ten
years before the originally scheduled date of California's recall election
- one of Sylvester Stallone's better movies opened wide at area theatres.
In "Demolition Man," Stallone played a Los Angeles cop, cryogenically
frozen around the turn of the century as punishment for a bum rap, who
is thawed out in the year 2032 to give chase to his similarly thawed-out
criminal nemesis. He teams up with Sandra Bullock, a new-style nicey-nice
police officer. As she is showing him around the L.A. of the future - where
everything is tidy, corporate and bland - he does a double take when she
mentions the "Schwarzenegger Presidential Library." Decades before,
Bullock explains perkily, Arnold Schwarzenegger became so popular that
the American people waived the technicalities and made him their maximum
leader.
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- "This was satire, not prognostication. Either way,
though, it appears to be right on schedule. The big technicality, of course,
is a clause in Article II, Section I, of the Constitution - the one that
states, 'No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United
States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible
to the office of President.' On July 10th, Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican
of Utah, quietly introduced what he hopes will become the twenty-eighth
amendment:
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- "A person who has been a citizen of the United States,
who has been for 20 years a citizen of the United States, and who is otherwise
eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to that Office by
reason of not being a native born citizen of the United States."
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- -From "Strongman," by Hendrik Hertzberg in
the September 29 issue of The New Yorker.
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- Senator Hatch Wants Arnold For President
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- From below: "Hatch has introduced a resolution to
amend the Constitution's ban on non-American-born presidents by allowing
people who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years to be elected
to the White House."
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- Put Past To Rest, Hatch Says Of Arnold
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- By Christopher Smith The Salt Lake Tribune 10-4-3
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- WASHINGTON -- Sen. Orrin Hatch says Arnold Schwarzenegger
should not be judged on past improper advances towards women but as the
devoted husband he is today, adding that the foreign-born GOP candidate
for California governor also should have the opportunity to run for president
under a constitutional amendment Hatch is pushing.
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- "We have to look at people who they are today, not
what they may have done wrong in the past," Hatch told the National
Press Club Friday. "There isn't a person in this room or anywhere
else in the world who is perfect, who has lived perfectly."
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- The movie-star body builder stumped for Hatch's 1994
re-election campaign when he joined the Utah Republican at an awards ceremony
at a Salt Lake City fitness equipment factory and taunted "hasta la
vista, baby" to Hatch's Democratic challenger, Pat Shea. Shea said
Schwarzenegger's appearance was offensive because of his movies' "terrible
treatment of women" and found it "ironic that Hatch, who promotes
himself as a true feminist, would bring one of the leading media promoters
of misogyny to Utah."
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- In answer to a question posed by reporters Friday, Hatch
noted that Schwarzenegger has said most of the groping allegations detailed
between 1975 and 2000 in a Thursday Los Angeles Times story are not true
"but he's apologized for acting improperly at times in the past."
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- "My experience with him is he's a very nice man,
very talented," said Hatch. "He's a very bright guy who is devoted
to his wife and I know a little bit about the family. As you know, I get
chewed up all the time for being a friend of Ted Kennedy."
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- Schwarzenegger is married to the Democratic Massachusetts
senator's niece Maria Shriver.
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- Hatch called Schwarzenegger a "tough guy" who
has guts to take on Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and predicted the star of
such films as "Terminator" will herald a new political leadership
style.
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- "If he gets the chance, he's not going to be a namby-pamby
out there," said Hatch. "I think you're going to find there's
going to be some new leadership that a lot of other people might emulate
in this society."
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- Hatch has introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution's
ban on non-American-born presidents by allowing people who have been U.S.
citizens for at least 20 years to be elected to the White House. While
the measure was not introduced with Schwarzenegger in mind, Hatch said
the Austrian-born superstar would be a perfect example of why the constitutional
amendment is needed.
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- "If Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be the greatest
governor of California, which I hope he will, if he turns out to be a tremendous
leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated
to this country as an American . . . we would be wrong not to give him
that opportunity," said Hatch.
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