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Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot -> per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched. LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "2 U.S.C. § 1"
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description: "Time for election of Senators"
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title_number: 2
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title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
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chapter_number: "1"
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chapter_name: "ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES"
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section: "1"
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citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 2 U.S.C. § 1 - Time for election of Senators
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## Text
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At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
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(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 3, 48 Stat. 879.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted “3d day of January” for “fourth day of March”.
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Constitutional ProvisionsThe first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: “* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.” Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, § 4, cl. 1. Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.
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