[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 548 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 548

   Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to allow floor 
 consideration of amendments that are supported by at least 20 percent 
  of the membership of the majority and minority parties of the House.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 1996

Mr. Minge (for himself, Mr Shays, Mr. Stenholm, and Mr. Klug) 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 to allow floor 
 consideration of amendments that are supported by at least 20 percent 
  of the membership of the majority and minority parties of the House.

    Resolved, That (a) clause 4 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(f) The Committee on Rules shall not report any rule or order 
providing for the consideration of any bill or resolution that 
precludes the offering of any otherwise permissible amendment under the 
rules to that bill or resolution if, before the commencement of the 
meeting to consider such rule or order, the committee has received a 
letter signed by the Member proposing to offer the amendment that 
recites the names of at least 20 percent of the majority party 
membership and at least 20 percent of the minority party membership of 
the House in support of that Member's offering of the amendment, and 
accompanied by a written copy of the amendment.''.
    (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 
immediately before noon, January 3, 1997.
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