Senators Quentin Burdick (D-ND) and Birch Bayh (D-IN) with S.J. Res. 1 (25th Amendment)

Senators Birch Bayh (D-IN) and Quentin Burdick (D-ND) with S.J. Res. 1 (25th Amendment)

Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) with unidentified man

Constitutional Amendment Hearings group, standing: Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN); Al Reshar; Leo Fentres; Margie Conaway; Senator Robert Kennedy (D-MA); Mr. Conoway; Mrs. Cal Weber

As further amendments were proposed, it became clear to Sam Ervin and others of divergent positions that they were setting a dangerous precedent in allowing amendments to a proposed constitutional amendment on the Senate floor. When Bayh began to…

The revised S. J. Res. 139 that was reported by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments to the Judiciary Committee on May 27, 1964 and then on August 13 by the Judiciary Committee to the full Senate with unanimous support had stripped out that…

The chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Emmanuel Celler (D-NY), had come on board to support S. J. Res. 139 in late May 1964. Since the 65 senators present for the vote had approved the amendment and another 20 had indicated support, the task in…

Identical bills were introduced in the House and Senate in the first week of January by Emmanuel Celler (D-NY) and Birch Bayh (D-IN) respectively.

In the interest of time, Bayh suggested considering the resolution section by section. After nearly three hours of working over the language, the committee voted to report S. J. Res. 1 in a revised form to the full Senate.

On February 22 S. J. Res. 1 was delivered to the House, where it went to the House Judiciary Committee, which had only concluded its hearings on the companion bill, H. R. Res. 1, the week before. On April 13 S. J. Res. 1 was debated in the House and…