[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H. Res. 125 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                   House Calendar No. 7
109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 125

                          [Report No. 109-10]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 841) to require States to 
       hold special elections to fill vacancies in the House of 
 Representatives not later than 45 days after the vacancy is announced 
    by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary 
                 circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2005

    Mr. Cole of Oklahoma, from the Committee on Rules, reported the 
  following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and 
                         ordered to be printed

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 841) to require States to 
       hold special elections to fill vacancies in the House of 
 Representatives not later than 45 days after the vacancy is announced 
    by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary 
                 circumstances, and for other purposes.

    Resolved,  That at any time after the adoption of this resolution 
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the 
House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 841) to require States to 
hold special elections to fill vacancies in the House of 
Representatives not later than 45 days after the vacancy is announced 
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary 
circumstances, and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill 
shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the bill 
and shall not exceed 60 minutes, with 40 minutes equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on House Administration and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled 
by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
Judiciary. After general debate the bill shall be considered for 
amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider 
as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute 
rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on House Administration now printed in the bill. The 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered 
as read. All points of order against the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute are waived. No amendment to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those 
printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 
resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order 
printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in 
the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against such 
amendments are waived. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill 
for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House 
with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a 
separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of 
the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion 
except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.




                                                   House Calendar No. 7

109th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 125

                          [Report No. 109-10]

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                               RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 841) to require States to 
       hold special elections to fill vacancies in the House of 
 Representatives not later than 45 days after the vacancy is announced 
    by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary 
                 circumstances, and for other purposes.

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                             March 1, 2005

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed