Twentieth Amendment

-Proposed by Congress on March 2, 1932; Declared ratified on February 6, 1933

Section 1
[Terms of Office]
"The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd 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."
Section 2
[Time of Convening Congress]
"The Congress shall assemble at least once in every yer, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January , unless they shall by law appoint a different day."
Section 3
[Death of President-Elect]
"If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."
Section 4
[Election of the President]
"The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them."
Section 5
[Amendment Takes Effect]
"Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article."
Section 6
[Ratification Within Seven Years]
"This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the Several States within seven years from the date of its submission."

This amendment moved the date on which new presidential and vice presidential terms began as well as the date for beginning new congressional terms, and it ended the abbreviated congressional session that had formerly convened in even-numbered years. It also fixed procedures for presidential succession if the president-elect died before inauguration day.  Also, this amendment called for the presidential and vice presidential terms to begin on January 20, and congressional terms begin on January 3. Another section of the amendment deals with presidential succession should the president-elect die before taking office. The amendment provides that the vice president elect shall become the president-elect and take office on January 20. The amendment also authorizes Congress to legislate on other matters of presidential succession.

This amendment was supposed to ensure that no more "lame duck" sessions would occur. But does our Congress actually abide by that?

Again, going back to the previous question, but do our congressmen actually listen to this amendment? Or are they more concerned with their own agendas?