,,iv  #aaeth ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,h4 ,,con4 ,,res4 #gi  ,,in ,,the       
,,house ,,of ,,representatives          
,september #ad1 #bjag,mr4 ,conyers 7for 
himself1 ,mr4 ,nadler1 ,ms4 ,lofgren1   
,mr4 ,cohen1 ,mr4 ,raskin1 ,mr4 ,al     
,green of ,texas1 ,ms4 ,jackson ,lee1   
,mr4 ,johnson of ,georgia1 ,mr4         
,jeffries1 ,mr4 ,blumenauer1 and ,mr4   
,gutirrez7 submitted the following      
concurrent resolution2 which was        
referred to the ,committee on the       
,judiciary  ,,concurrent ,,resolution   
,expressing the sense of ,congress that 
,congress and the ,states should        
consider a constitutional amendment to  
reform the ,electoral ,college and      
establish a process for electing the    
,president and ,vice ,president by a    
national popular vote and should        
encourage individual ,states to continue
 to reform the ,electoral ,college      
process through such steps as the       
formation of an interstate compact to   
award the majority of ,electoral        

,college votes to the national popular  
vote winner4  ,whereas the ,supreme     
,court has held that the conception of  
political equality from the ,declaration
 of ,independence1 to ,lincoln's        
,gettysburg ,address1 to the #aeth1     
#agth1 and #aith ,amendments can only   
mean one thing -- one person1 one vote22
 ,whereas the ,electoral ,college is an 
anti-democratic method of ,presidential 
selection that has permitted the        
candidate without a majority of the     
popular vote to become ,president of the
 ,united ,states on five occasions1     
including the most recent election1 in  
which ,hillary ,clinton garnered almost 
#c million more votes than ,electoral   
,college winner ,donald ,trump2 ,whereas
 the ,electoral ,college lessens the    
value of votes in the majority of       
,states relative to the value of votes  
in so-called swing ,states because a    
small number of voters in these ,states 
can determine the outcome of an         
election2 ,whereas a person could be    

elected ,president with potentially less
 than #bb percent of the popular vote1  
calling into question his or her        
political legitimacy2 ,whereas the      
winner take all basis of the ,electoral 
,college discounts the votes of the     
millions of people who did not vote for 
the winning candidate in their ,states2 
,whereas the ,electoral ,college does   
not act as a check on unqualified       
candidates as the ,framers of the       
,constitution intended because it is    
populated by political party loyalists  
who do not1 and often under ,state law  
cannot1 exercise independent judgment or
 who do not even meet to deliberate     
about who should be ,president1 which is
 why over time there have been very few 
faithless electors1 and none that have  
decided an election's outcome2 ,whereas 
the ,electoral ,college does not protect
 small-population ,states and rural     
areas from domination by                
large-population ,states and urban areas
 and instead encourages candidates to   

bypass the majority of ,states1 whatever
 their size1 to focus their campaign    
efforts on a very small number of swing 
,states2 ,whereas in the #bjaf          
,presidential election both major party 
candidates largely bypassed #c of the #d
 largest ,states by population during   
the campaign and also skipped           
campaigning in #ab of the #ac smallest  
,states as well2 ,whereas statewide     
recounts under differing and confusing  
rules bring neither clarity nor finality
 to the electoral process1 while a      
national popular vote is far more likely
 to establish a clear winner1 avoiding  
the necessity of recounts altogether2   
,whereas according to ,yale ,law ,school
 ,professor ,akhil ,reed ,amar1 the     
,electoral ,college is an anachronistic 
institution1 its historical development 
rooted in preserving the political      
influence of slaveholding ,states whose 
enslaved populations were not allowed to
 vote but three-fifths of whom were     
counted when determining the number of  

,electoral ,college votes allotted to   
the ,state2 ,whereas proposed amendments
 to the ,constitution reforming the     
,electoral ,college have been approved  
by a two-thirds majority twice in the   
,senate and once in the ,house1 and more
 than #gjj proposals to eliminate or    
reform the ,electoral ,college have been
 introduced2 and ,whereas #aa ,states   
representing #afe electoral votes have  
already entered into an interstate      
compact to cast their electoral votes   
for the national popular vote winner3   
,now1 therefore1 be it  ,that it is the 
sense of ,congress that-- 7#a7 ,congress
 and the ,states should consider a      
constitutional amendment to reform the  
,electoral ,college and establish a     
process for electing the ,president and 
,vice ,president by a national popular  
vote2 and  7#b7 ,congress should        
encourage the ,states to continue to    
reform the ,electoral ,college process  
through such steps as the formation of  
an interstate compact to award the      

majority of ,electoral ,college votes to
 the national popular vote winner4