[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 78 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 78

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit Delegates 
  and the Resident Commissioner to the Congress to cast votes in the 
        Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2007

    Mr. Hoyer (for himself, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Larson of 
 Connecticut, Mr. Becerra, and Ms. Slaughter) 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 permit Delegates 
  and the Resident Commissioner to the Congress to cast votes in the 
        Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. VOTING BY DELEGATES AND RESIDENT COMMISSIONER IN COMMITTEE 
              OF THE WHOLE.

    (a) Permitting Votes To Be Cast.--Clause 3(a) of rule III of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows:
    ``3. (a) In a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union, each Delegate and the Resident Commissioner shall possess the 
same powers and privileges as Members of the House. Each Delegate and 
the Resident Commissioner shall be elected to serve on standing 
committees in the same manner as Members of the House and shall possess 
in such committees the same powers and privileges as the other members 
of the committee.''.
    (b) Appointment of Chair.--The first sentence of clause 1 of rule 
XVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
striking ``a Chairman'' and inserting ``a Member, Delegate, or the 
Resident Commissioner as Chairman''.
    (c) Repeating of Certain Votes.--Clause 6 of rule XVIII of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph:
    ``(h) Whenever a recorded vote on any question has been decided by 
a margin within which the votes cast by the Delegates and the Resident 
Commissioner have been decisive, the Committee of the Whole shall rise 
and the Speaker shall put such question de novo without intervening 
motion. Upon the announcement of the vote on that question, the 
Committee of the Whole shall resume its sitting without intervening 
motion.''.
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