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- <text id=92TT1179>
- <title>
- May 25, 1992: Nation:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- NATION
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> LATE VOTE
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- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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