[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 242 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 242

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives respecting waivers 
                               of rules.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1993

  Mr. Buyer (for himself, Mr. Fawell, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Quinn, Mr. 
  Istook, Mr. Huffington, Mr. Horn, Mr. Everett, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. 
   Greenwood, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Portman, Mr. Crapo, Mr. 
  Calvert, Mr. Grams, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. McInnis, Mr. 
Miller of Florida, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. 
 McKeon, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. 
Boehlert, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Doolittle, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Goss, 
Mr. Zimmer, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Linder, Mr. Petri, Mr. McHugh, 
  Mr. Herger, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Ravenel, Mr. 
 Ramstad, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Quillen, Mr. Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Canady, 
 Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, and Mr. Talent) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives respecting waivers 
                               of rules.

    Resolved, That clause 4 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(e) The affirmative percentage of those voting that is required 
to adopt any rule or order reported by the Committee on Rules providing 
for the consideration of any bill or resolution that waives any rule of 
the House shall be the same as the affirmative percentage of those 
voting that is required by the rules of the House to waive that 
rule.''.

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