Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 12.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NORMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 2, January 6, 2025, Page H50):
  Article V of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 6, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  29 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 12, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/12

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  October 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8d7f243fd1d33722896afddff7738a2813e7e54238e483723b2cfb26945caa69

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of October 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 12, last updated October 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved October 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.