[House Calendars, Final - 108th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


 
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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      15
  House joint resolutions:
    Public laws........................................    7      16
    Private laws.......................................    7      18
  Senate bills:
    Public laws........................................    7      19
    Private laws.......................................    7      25
  Senate joint resolutions:
    Public laws........................................    7      26
    Private laws.......................................    7      27
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed while Congress 
was in session)........................................    7      28
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed after adjournment 
of Congress)...........................................    7      29
Acts which were vetoed but became laws...................................................    7      30
Acts which became laws without the approval of the 
President (while Congress was in session)..............    7      31
Pocket vetoes (during recess)..........................    7      32
Pocket vetoes (after adjournment of Congress)..............................................    7      33
Bills not signed or returned to Congress notwithstanding 
intrasession adjournment of the two 
Houses.................................................    7      34
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       9
Statistical recapitulation:
  First session........................................   19      57
  Second session.......................................   19      58
  Congresses...........................................   19      59
Comparison of work in previous Congresses.............................................   19      60
Recapitulation and analysis of bills and resolutions:
  Footnotes of previous Congresses.............................................   19      61
  First session........................................   19      74
  Second session.......................................   19      75
  Congress.............................................   19      76
Calendar of year 2003..................................   20       1
Calendar of year 2004..................................   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 XIV, 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. Each committee when named may call up for 
consideration a bill or resolution reported by it on a previous day 
and on the House Calendar. If the Speaker does not complete the call 
of the committees before the House passes to other business, the next 
call shall resume at the point it left off, giving preference to the 
last bill or resolution under consideration. A committee that has 
occupied the call for two days may not call up another bill or 
resolution until the other committees have been called in their 
turn.''
        Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.

                       CALENDAR WEDNESDAY BUSINESS

        Rule XV, clause 7:
        ``7. (a) On Wednesday of each week, business shall not be in 
order before completion of the call of the committees (except as 
provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) unless two-thirds of the Members 
voting, a quorum being present, agree to a motion that the House 
dispense with the call. Such a motion shall be privileged. Debate on 
such a motion shall be limited to five minutes in support and five 
minutes in opposition.
        (b) A bill or resolution on either the House or the Union 
Calendar, except bills or resolutions that are privileged under the 
Rules of the House, may be called under this clause. A bill or 
resolution called up from the Union Calendar shall be considered in the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without motion, 
subject to clause 3 of rule XVI. General debate on a measure considered 
under this clause shall be confined to the measure and may not exceed 
two hours equally divided between a proponent and an opponent.
        (c) When a committee has occupied the call under this clause on 
one Wednesday, it shall not be in order on a succeeding Wednesday to 
consider unfinished business previously called up by that committee 
until the other committees have been called in their turn unless--
             (1) the previous question has been ordered on such 
unfinished business; or
             (2) the House adopts a motion to dispense with the call 
under paragraph (a).
        (d) If any committee has not been called under this clause 
during a session of a Congress, then at the next session of that 
Congress the call shall resume where it left off at the end of the 
preceding session.
        (e) This rule does not apply during the last two weeks of a 
session of Congress.
        (f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion for a recess on a 
Wednesday except during the last two weeks of a session of Congress.''
        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 XV).
Corrections Calendar............    Second and fourth Tuesdays of each 
                                    month (clause 6, rule XV).
Discharge Calendar..............    Second and fourth Mondays of each 
                                    month, except during the last 6 days 
                                    of a session (clause 2, rule XV).
District of Columbia business...    Second and fourth Mondays of each 
                                    month (clause 4, rule XV).
Private Calendar................    First and third Tuesdays of each 
                                    month (clause 5, rule XV).
Suspension of rules.............    Mondays and Tuesdays and during the 
                                    last 6 days of a session (clause 1, 
                                    rule XV) and on Wednesdays through 
                                    the second Wednesday in April 2003 
                                    (sec. 3(d) of H. Res. 5) and then 
                                    through June 25, 2003 (special order 
                                    by unanimous consent of April 30, 
                                    2003) and then through the remainder 
                                    of the 108th Congress (H. Res. 297).