[House Calendars, Final - 104th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
CALENDAR OF MOTIONS TO DISCHARGE COMMITTEES
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``3. A Member may present to the Clerk a motion in writing to
discharge a committee from the consideration of a public bill or
resolution which has been referred to it thirty days prior thereto
(but only one motion may be presented for each bill or resolution).
Under this rule it shall also be in order for a Member to file a
motion to discharge the Committee on Rules from further consideration
of any resolution providing a special rule for the consideration of
a public bill or resolution reported by a standing committee, or
a special rule for the consideration of a public bill or resolution
which has remained in a standing committee thirty or more days without
action: Provided, That a Member may not file a motion to discharge
the Committee on Rules from consideration of a resolution providing for
the consideration of more than one public bill or resolution, or admitting
or effecting a nongermane amendment to a public bill or resolution:
Provided further, That said resolution from which it is moved to
discharge the Committee on Rules has been referred to that committee at
least seven days prior to the filing of the motion to discharge. The
motion shall be placed in the custody of the Clerk, who shall arrange
some convenient place for the signature of Members. A signature may
be withdrawn by a Member in writing at any time before the motion
is entered on the Journal. Once a motion to discharge has been
filed, the Clerk shall make the signatures a matter of public record.
The Clerk shall cause the names of the Members who have signed a
discharge motion during any week to be published in a portion of
the Congressional Record designated for that purpose on the last
legislative day of that week. The Clerk shall make available each
day for public inspection in an appropriate office of the House
cumulative lists of such names. The Clerk shall devise a means by
which to make such lists available to offices of the House and to
the public in electronic form. When a majority of the total membership
of the House shall have signed the motion, it shall be entered on the
Journal, printed with the signatures thereto in the Congressional
Record, and referred to the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees.
``On the second and fourth Mondays of each month except during the
last six days of any session of Congress, immediately after the approval
of the Journal, any Member who has signed a motion to discharge which
has been on the calendar at least seven days prior thereto, and seeks
recognition, shall be recognized for the purpose of calling up the
motion, and the House shall proceed to its consideration in the manner
herein provided without intervening motion except one motion to adjourn.
Recognition for the motions shall be in the order in which they have
been entered on the Journal.
``When any motion under this rule shall be called up, the bill or
resolution shall be read by title only. After twenty minutes' debate,
one-half in favor of the proposition and one-half in opposition thereto,
the House shall proceed to vote on the motion to discharge. If the
motion prevails to discharge the Committee on Rules from any resolution
pending before the committee, the House shall immediately consider
such resolution, the Speaker not entertaining any dilatory motion
except one motion to adjourn, and, if such resolution is adopted, the
House shall immediately proceed to its execution. If the motion prevails
to discharge one of the standing committees of the House from any public
bill or resolution pending before the committee, it shall then be in order
for any Member who signed the motion to move that the House proceed to
the immediate consideration of such bill or resolution (such motion not
being debatable), and such motion is hereby made of high privilege; and
if it shall be decided in the affirmative, the bill shall be immediately
considered under the general rules of the House, and if unfinished before
adjournment of the day on which it is called up it shall remain the
unfinished business until it is fully disposed of. Should the House by
vote decide against the immediate consideration of such bill or resolution,
it shall be referred to its proper calendar and be entitled to the same
rights and privileges that it would have had had the committee to which
it was referred duly reported same to the House for its consideration:
Provided, That when any perfected motion to discharge a committee
from the consideration of any public bill or resolution has once been
acted upon by the House it shall not be in order to entertain during the
same session of Congress any other motion for the discharge from that
committee of said measure, or from any other committee of any other
bill or resolution substantially the same, relating in substance to
or dealing with the same subject matter, or from the Committee on
Rules of a resolution providing a special order of business for the
consideration of any other such bill or resolution, in order that
such action by the House on a motion to discharge shall be res adjudicata
for the remainder of that session: Provided further, That if
before any one motion to discharge a committee has been acted upon by
the House there are on the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees
other motions to discharge committees from the consideration of bills
or resolutions substantially the same, relating in substance to or
dealing with the same subject matter, after the House shall have acted
on one motion to discharge, the remaining said motions shall be stricken
from the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees and not acted on
during the remainder of that session of Congress.''
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Motion No. Calen-
and date Title Committee Motion filed by- dar
entered No.
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1996
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