[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 330 Laid on Table in House (LTH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 330

         Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 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 summoned the United States 
Capitol Police to evict minority party members of the Committee on Ways 
and Means from the committee library, as well as the manner in which he 
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, and calls for the police 
report to be placed in the Congressional Record.
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