Legislative Notebook: Georgia’s Senate first to resolve for U.S. Constitution amendments | State Legislature | Macon.com

The Georgia Senate agreed 37-16 that states should band together and amend the U.S. Constitution to limit federal spending, power and congressional terms.

“We sense an utter frustration (from voters) with what’s going on in Washington, D.C., today,” resolution sponsor state Sen. Cecil Staton, R-Macon, told his colleagues from the Senate floor on Tuesday ahead of the party line vote.

The resolution tells the U.S. Congress that Georgia wants an Article V convention: a meeting of states authorized in the U.S. Constitution to make amendments to that document. It could consider any one of the three topics in the resolution. They are worded broadly and aim to make the federal government live within its means, cut federal power and impose some kind of congressional term limits.

It takes similar resolutions in 34 states to trigger an Article V convention, something that has never happened before.

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