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handle is hein.crs/goveoud0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S Congressional __ *. Research Service The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 6: Final Approval and Implementation March 28, 2024 This Legal Sidebar post is the sixth in a seven-part series that discusses the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. In an effort to ensure that the United States will always possess a functioning President and Vice President, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment seeks to promote the prompt, orderly, and democratic transfer of executive power. In particular, the Amendment establishes procedures for addressing presidential inability and vacancies that arise in the presidency or vice presidency. Because Congress may play a role in implementing the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, understanding the Amendment's history and drafting may assist Congress in its legislative activities. This Sidebar post discusses the Twenty-Fifth Amendment's implementation. Other Sidebars in this series discuss the Twenty-Fifth Amendment's procedures; the framing of the Presidential Succession Clause at the Constitutional Convention of 1787; the history of presidential succession; and the Amendment's drafting in Congress and unresolved issues. Additional information on this topic is available at the Constitution Annotated: Analysis and Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and in several CRS reports. Final Congressional Approval and State Ratification of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment On February 19, 1965, the Senate unanimously approved the revised S.J. Res. 1, which proposed an amendment to the Constitution on presidential vacancy, vice presidential vacancy, and presidential inability. The House approved the revised H.J. Res. 1 as a substitute for the Senate joint resolution on April 13, 1965, by a vote of 368 to 29. The houses convened a conference committee to reconcile differences in the House and Senate versions of the joint resolution. As compared to the House resolution, the Senate version featured a longer, seven-day time frame for the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet (or other body) to challenge a President's assertion that he had recovered from an inability under Section 4. The Senate version also lacked the House version's specific deadlines for Congress to assemble and resolve disputes between the President and the officials challenging the President's recovery declaration. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB11136 CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress