FIRST REGULAR SESSION

House Concurrent Resolution No. 13

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

0593L.01I

            Whereas, Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution states the President "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States"; and

            Whereas, there is a high likelihood of at least one vacancy on the United States Supreme Court during the 109th Congress; and

            Whereas, there is a possibility of the need to elevate a sitting justice on the United States Supreme Court to the position of Chief Justice during the 109th Congress; and

            Whereas, activist judges on some federal courts have frustrated the constitutional structure which prescribes that laws shall be written by elected legislatures; and

            Whereas, President George W. Bush has expressed his commitment to appoint federal judges who will strictly interpret the United States Constitution; and

            Whereas, in the past, a minority of Senators has used dilatory tactics to prevent a Senate floor vote on several President George W. Bush's judicial nominees, all of whom were reported favorably by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:

            Now, therefore, be it resolved that the members of the House of Representatives of the Ninety-third General Assembly, First Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein, hereby request our United States Senators to move quickly to confirm all nominations by President George W. Bush to the United States Supreme Court; and                                                                                                        

            Be it further resolved that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for United States Senators Christopher Bond and Jim Talent.