[House Calendars, Final - 104th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



 
                           UNFINISHED BUSINESS

                                                                                                                
                1996                                                                                            
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                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                                                                 Section   Page 
                                                                                                                
Special orders.................................................................................        0       2
Unfinished business............................................................................        0       3
Morning hour call of committees................................................................        0       6
Calendar Wednesday business....................................................................        0       6
Special legislative days.......................................................................        0       6
Calendars:                                                                                                      
  Union........................................................................................        1       1
  House........................................................................................        2       1
  Private......................................................................................        3       1
  Corrections..................................................................................        4       1
  Motions to discharge committees..............................................................        5       1
Laws--numerical list by law number.............................................................        6       1
Titles of bills and resolutions which have become laws:                                                         
  House bills:                                                                                                  
    Public laws................................................................................        7       1
    Private laws...............................................................................        7      10
  House joint resolutions:                                                                                      
    Public laws................................................................................        7      11
    Private laws...............................................................................        7      13
  Senate bills:                                                                                                 
    Public laws................................................................................        7      14
    Private laws...............................................................................        7      18
  Senate joint resolutions:                                                                                     
    Public laws................................................................................        7      19
    Private laws...............................................................................        7      20
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed while Congress was in session)........................        7      21
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed after adjournment of Congress)........................        7      23
Acts which were vetoed but became laws.........................................................        7      24
Acts which became laws without the approval of the President (while Congress was in session)...        7      25
Pocket vetoes (during recess)..................................................................        7      26
Pocket vetoes (after adjournment of Congress)..................................................        7      27
Bills not signed or returned to Congress notwithstanding intrasession adjournment of the two                    
 Houses........................................................................................        7      28
Numerical order of bills and resolutions which have been reported to or considered by either or                 
 both Houses...................................................................................                 
  House bills..................................................................................        8       1
    Joint resolutions..........................................................................        9       1
    Concurrent resolutions.....................................................................       10       1
    Resolutions................................................................................       11       1
  Senate bills.................................................................................       12       1
    Joint resolutions..........................................................................       13       1
    Concurrent resolutions.....................................................................       14       1
    Resolutions (of interest to the House).....................................................       15       1
Numerical order of reported bills and resolutions which have been referred to committees under                  
 time limitations..............................................................................       16       1
Bills in conference............................................................................       17       1
Bills through conference.......................................................................       18       1
Index (short titles)...........................................................................       19       1
Index (subject)................................................................................       19       7
Statistical recapitulation:                                                                                     
  First session................................................................................       19      45
  Second session...............................................................................       19      46
  Congresses...................................................................................       19      47
Comparison of work in previous Congresses......................................................       19      48
Recapitulation and analysis of bills and resolutions:                                                           
  Footnotes of previous Congresses.............................................................       19      49
  First session................................................................................       19      62
  Second session...............................................................................       19      63
  Congress.....................................................................................       19      64
Calendar of year 1995..........................................................................       20       1
Calendar of year 1996..........................................................................       20       2
Status of major bills (first session)..........................................................       20       3
Status of major bills (second session).........................................................       20       4
                                                                                                                

               THE MORNING HOUR FOR THE CALL OF COMMITTEES

        Rule XXIV, clause 4:
        ``4. After the unfinished business has been disposed of, the 
Speaker shall call each standing committee in regular order, and then 
select committees, and each committee when named may call up for 
consideration any bill reported by it on a previous day and on the House 
Calendar, and if the Speaker shall not complete the call of the 
Committees before the House passes to other business, he shall resume 
the next call where he left off, giving preference to the last bill 
under consideration: Provided, That whenever any committee shall have 
occupied the morning hour on two days, it shall not be in order to call 
up any other bill until the other committees have been called in their 
turn.''
        Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.

                       CALENDAR WEDNESDAY BUSINESS

        Rule XXIV, clause 7:
        ``7. On Wednesday of each week no business shall be in order 
except as provided by clause 4 of this rule unless the House by a two-
thirds vote on motion to dispense therewith shall otherwise determine. 
On such a motion there may be debate not to exceed five minutes for and 
against. On a call of committees under this rule bills may be called up 
from either the House or the Union Calendar, excepting bills which are 
privileged under the rules; but bills called up from the Union Calendar 
shall be considered in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union. This rule shall not apply during the last two weeks of the 
session. It shall not be in order for the Speaker to entertain a motion 
for a recess on any Wednesday except during the last two weeks of the 
session: Provided, That not more than two hours of general debate shall 
be permitted on any measure called up on Calendar Wednesday, and all 
debate must be confined to the subject matter of the bill, the time to 
be equally divided between those for and against the bill: Provided 
further, That whenever any committee shall have occupied one Wednesday 
it shall not be in order, unless the House by a two-thirds vote shall 
otherwise determine, to consider any unfinished business previously 
called up by such committee, unless the previous question had been 
ordered thereon, upon any succeeding Wednesday until the other 
committees have been called in their turn under this rule: Provided, 
That when, during any one session of a Congress, all of the committees 
of the House are not called under the Calendar Wednesday rule, at the 
next session of that Congress the call shall commence where it left off 
at the end of the preceding session.''
        Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.

                        SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE DAYS

Calendar Wednesday..............    Wednesday of each week, except 
                                    during the last 2 weeks of a session 
                                    (clause 7, rule XXIV).
Corrections Calendar............    Second and fourth Tuesdays of each 
                                    month (clause 4, rule XIII).
Discharge Calendar..............    Second and fourth Mondays of each 
                                    month, except during the last 6 days 
                                    of a session (clause 3, rule XXVII).
District of Columbia business...    Second and fourth Mondays of each 
                                    month (clause 8, rule XXIV).
Private Calendar................    First and third Tuesdays of each 
                                    month (clause 6, rule XXIV).
Suspension of rules.............    Mondays and Tuesdays and during the 
                                    last 6 days of a session (clause 1, 
                                    rule XXVII).