[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 324 Laid on Table in House (LTH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 324

         Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2003

 Ms. Pelosi submitted the following resolution; which was laid on the 
                                 table

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                               RESOLUTION


 
         Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.

Whereas during a meeting of the Committee on Ways and Means on July 18, 2003, 
        for the consideration of the bill H.R. 1776, the chairman of the 
        Committee on Ways and Means offered an amendment in the nature of a 
        substitute;
Whereas during the reading of that amendment the chairman of the Ways and Means 
        Committee directed majority staff of the committee to ask the United 
        States Capitol Police to remove minority-party members of the committee 
        from a room of the committee during the meeting, causing the United 
        States Capitol Police thereupon to confront the minority-party members 
        of the committee; and
Whereas pending a unanimous-consent request to dispense with the reading of that 
        amendment the chairman deliberately and improperly refused to recognize 
        a legitimate and timely objection by a member of the committee: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the 
manner in which Representative Thomas conducted the markup of 
legislation in the Committee on Ways and Means on July 18, 2003, and 
finds that the bill considered at that markup was not validly ordered 
reported to the House.
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