The committee considered an amendment (Amendment I) to Senate Joint Memorial 8008, which proposes to rescind prior requests to Congress for an Article V convention. The amendment would have removed several findings from the memorial and struck the word "constitutional" when modifying references to a convention.

Senator Hasegawa urged members to vote no on the amendment, saying the amendment removed key rationale and rationale-related language from the memorial and warning about the risks of opening the constitutional-convention process. In part she argued that a constitutional convention could create far-reaching changes and that the preferred method to amend the Constitution is by Congress proposing amendments for ratification by the states.

The amendment failed on a committee voice vote; the chair ruled Amendment I was not adopted. After that vote the committee approved the joint memorial itself and reported it to the rules committee with a due-pass recommendation. The chair recorded that the joint memorial had passed "subject to signatures."