Authorizing small appropriations For continuing resolutions, which extend appropriation levels adopted in a prior fiscal year, when one or more of the annual appropriations acts have been temporarily delayed from becoming law on time Creating temporary commissions or other ad hoc bodies (e.g., the 9/11 Commission) Creating temporary exceptions to existing law, such as joint resolutions providing a day other than January 6 for counting electoral votes or providing for a Saxbe fix reducing the pay of an office so that a member of Congress may avoid the Ineligibility Clause Declaring war Terminating national emergency declarations[3] Amending the Constitution of the United States Annexing sovereign nation-states