HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 37

(By Delegates Ridenour, Crouse, A. Hall, Mazzocchi, Adkins and Hillenbrand)

February 14, 2023

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary then the Committee on Rules

Requesting that Congress call a convention of states.

Whereas, Article V authorizes the States and Congress equally to propose Amendments to the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, The Constitution mandates that Congress shall call a Convention for Proposing Amendments "upon the Application of two-thirds of the several States;" and

Whereas, Since 1979, when Congressional Records included 39 applications for any subject or inflation-related fiscal responsibility, the national debt has increased from $850 billion to more than $31 trillion and the dollar has been devalued by more than 70 percent, as of the end of 2021; and

Whereas, As of October 2022, inflation was 7.7 percent, a 40-year high; and

Whereas, Fiscal and monetary irresponsibility at the federal level is increasing inflation, reducing economic growth, lowering Americans’ standard of living, jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare, putting national security at alarming risk, and threatening the economic stability of the several states and the prosperity of Americans for generations to come; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Legislature calls on the Congress of the United States to do their duty under the constitution and call a convention of states for proposing amendments to the constitution of the United States; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a copy of this resolution to West Virginia's representatives in Congress and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.