Understand an amendment doesn’t NEED any CONGRESSIONAL INVOLVMENT!
The 2/3 is needed to propose an amendment, which then puts it to the states to ratify... is required of Congress... However an amendment can be proposed by a constitutional convention which requires 2/3 of the states to vote to hold.... So in theory you can propose amendments without any CONGRESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER.
CONGRESS CAN BE CHECKED... I am not advocating this route, and to date not a single amendment to the constitution has been introduced by this manner, but an amendment can be introduced even of the house and senate don’t want to to it.
This is the FINAL check on the government BY THE PEOPLE.
If you assume the last presidential election were a break on supporting a convention the nation is only 7% points away from being able to hold one... assuming every Trump state agreed and every Hillary state didn’t.
I don’t really advocate this route, because you are going to get all kinds of kooky amendments put out there if there ever was one, but the reality is the constitution does provide the ability to be modified without a single vote in the house or senate.
I’m very much aware that the states can bypass Congress with a Convention of the States and amend the Constitution as they see fit - and I also agree that this would not be a good idea, there being WAY to many Leftist kooks (and just plain kooks) in our political system.
That all said, I only addressed whether this particular piece of legislation would be able to pass both houses with a 2/3 majority and be forwarded on to the states in the usual way that amendments have been passed up until this point in time...with the conclusion that it wouldn’t so pass.