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        <title>Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3685) to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.</title>
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        <text>Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 479.</text>
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        <text>On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 184 (Roll no. 1057).</text>
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        <text>Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 184 (Roll no. 1057).</text>
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        <text>On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 198 - 222 (Roll no. 1056).</text>
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        <text>The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H13252)</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Forbes motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to add at the end of section 8(c) that "nothing in this Act may be construed to modify, limit, restrict, or in any way overturn any State or Federal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, including the use of this Act as a legal predicate in litigation on the issue of marriage."</text>
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        <text>Mr. Forbes moved to recommit with instructions to Education and Labor. (consideration: CR H13250-13252; text: CR H13250)</text>
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        <text>The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text: CR H13241-13243)</text>
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        <text>The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H13250)</text>
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        <text>The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3685.</text>
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        <text>UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 793, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Baldwin amendment.</text>
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        <text>POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Souder amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. George Miller (CA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceeding on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 793, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Souder amendment.</text>
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        <text>POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the George Miller (CA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. George Miller (CA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceeding on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 793, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the George Miller (CA) amendment.</text>
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        <text>GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 3685.</text>
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        <text>House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 793 and Rule XVIII.</text>
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        <text>The Speaker designated the Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.</text>
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        <text>Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3685 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.</text>
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        <text>Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 793. (consideration: CR H13216-13253)</text>
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        <text>Rule H. Res. 793 passed House.</text>
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        <text>Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 793 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3685 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.</text>
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        <text>Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 257.</text>
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        <text>Committee on Judiciary discharged.</text>
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        <text>Reported by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 110-406, Part I.</text>
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        <text>Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 21.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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