Hillary Clinton was elected in 2006 to a six year term. Therefore, “during the time for which he was elected” is from 2006-2012. The actual time served is irrelevant. In fact, the next phrase “and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office” already bars one from retaining their legislative position, so what would be point of saying the same thing twice?
Hillary can still take the position provided they reduce her pay back to the previous level.
(Unless, of course, Obama was counting on this, and just drops her altogether while feigning surprise.)
No offence, but this is grasping at straws and for what? Do you really want to keep Hillary in the Senate for the next 10-40 years? I don’t. Let her take the job and then at the next election the GOP has a shot at taking the seat.
Yep. They can’t vote to create an office, or boost the pay of an office, then resign and take that office. That is just one bit of an effort to keep them from making a silver-lined nest for them to jump in.