    [House Calendars for June 17, 2009 - 111th Congress, 1st Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

                               UNFINISHED BUSINESS

                    2009
    H.R. 2847                            A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice,
      June 16                             and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
                                          2010, and for other purposes. (Pending in the Committee of the Whole House
                                          on the State of the Union; Mr. Altmire of Pennsylvania, Chairman.)

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                                     Section
    Union Calendar....................................................     1
    House Calendar....................................................     2
    Private Calendar..................................................     3
    Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees.......................     4
    Public Laws.......................................................     5
    Private Laws......................................................     6
    History of Bills and Resolutions:
            House Bills...............................................     7
            House Joint Resolutions...................................     8
            House Concurrent Resolutions..............................     9
            House Resolutions.........................................    10
            Senate Bills..............................................    11
            Senate Joint Resolutions..................................    12
            Senate Concurrent Resolutions.............................    13
            Senate Resolutions........................................    14
    Reported Bills Referred under Time Limitations....................    15
    Bills in conference...............................................    16
    Bills through conference (printed the first legislative day of
        each week the House is in session)............................    17
    Index of Short Titles (printed the first legislative day of each
        week the House is in session).................................    18
    Index (printed the first legislative day of each week the House is
        in session)...................................................    19
    Calendar of year 2009 ............................................    20
    Status of major bills (first session) ............................    20

                   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 6:
            ``6. (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 clause does not apply during the last two weeks of a
    session of Congress.
            (f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion that the Speaker be
    authorized to declare 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 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, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
                                        and during the last 6 days of a
                                        session (clause 1, rule XV).