Political Quotes

“I offer a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to advance the Inauguration dates for the President and Members of Congress from January 20th and 3rd to December 10th and 1st respectively. In offering this resolution here in the 104th Congress, I note for my colleagues that this is an effort I first began in 1981 and with each succeeding set of national elections, I believe that the rationale and wisdom for changing these dates becomes more compelling. The current date for the Inauguration of the President was set by the 20th amendment to the Constitution in 1933. Prior to that, the Inauguration date had not changed since being fixed by an act of the Continental Congress in 1788 commencing the proceeding of the Government of the United States under the newly ratified Constitution. Under that act, March 4th was chosen simply because it happened to be the first Wednesday in March of 1789 and it was thought at the time that that amount of time was needed for each State to appoint Presidential electors to the Electoral College and for them to meet and cast their ballots.”