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- THE WEEK, Page 19NATIONEt Cetera
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- LATE VOTE
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- Congress is never too humbled by scandal to pass up a turf
- fight. This week its leaders plan to call for a vote on a
- constitutional amendment, proposed by James Madison in 1789,
- barring Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises. Now that
- 38 states have ratified the proposal, Congress wants credit too.
- Constitutional scholars say the vote is meaningless; the 27th
- Amendment will be official as soon as national archivist Don W.
- Wilson declares that the states' paperwork is in order.
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