[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 209 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 209

  Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to take away the 
 power of the Committee on Rules to report rules or orders waiving the 
                        germaneness requirement.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 1997

 Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania 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 take away the 
 power of the Committee on Rules to report rules or orders waiving the 
                        germaneness requirement.

    Resolved, That the last sentence of clause 4(b) of rule XI of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ``; nor shall it report any rule 
or order waiving the germaneness requirement of clause 7 of rule XVI''.
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