[House Calendars, Final - 113th Congress, 1st Session]
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                        ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS



                     FIRST SESSION    CONVENED JANUARY 3, 2013

                                      ADJOURNED JANUARY 3, 2014

                                      

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                              FINAL EDITION





                              FIRST SESSION





                             SPECIAL ORDERS



SPECIAL ORDER   The Speaker's policy with regard to special-order 

SPEECHES            speeches announced on February 11, 1994, as 

                    clarified and reiterated by subsequent Speakers, 

                    will continue to apply in the 113th Congress, with 

                    the following modifications.

                The Chair may recognize Members for special-order 

                    speeches for up to 4 hours. Such speeches may not 

                    extend beyond the 4-hour limit without the 

                    permission of the Chair, which may be granted only 

                    with advance consultation between the leaderships 

                    and notification to the House. However, the Chair 

                    will not recognize for any special-order speeches 

                    beyond 10 o'clock in the evening.



                The 4-hour limitation will be divided between the 

                    majority and minority parties. Each party is 

                    entitled to reserve its first hour for respective 

                    leaderships or their designees. The second hour 

                    reserved to each party will be divided into two 30-

                    minute periods. Recognition for one-hour periods and 

                    for 30-minute periods will alternate initially and 

                    subsequently between the parties each day. The Chair 

                    wishes to clarify for Members that any 60- or 30-

                    minute period that is not claimed at the appropriate 

                    time will be considered to have expired; this 

                    includes the first 60-minute period of the day.



                The allocation of time within each party's 2-hour period 

                    (or shorter period if prorated to end by 10 p.m.) 

                    will be determined by a list submitted to the Chair 

                    by the respective leaderships. Members may not sign 

                    up with their leadership for any special-order 

                    speeches earlier than one week prior to the special 

                    order. Additional guidelines may be established for 

                    such sign-ups by the respective leaderships.



                Pursuant to clause 2(a) of rule V, the television 

                    cameras will not pan the Chamber, but a ``crawl'' 

                    indicating the conduct of morning-hour debate or 

                    that the House has completed its legislative 

                    business and is proceeding with special-order 

                    speeches will appear on the screen. The Chair may 

                    announce other adaptations during this period.



                The continuation of this format for recognition by the 

                    Speaker is without prejudice to the Speaker's 

                    ultimate power of recognition under clause 2 of rule 

                    XVII and includes the ability to withdraw 

                    recognition for longer special-order speeches should 

                    circumstances warrant.



MORNING HOUR    That during the first session of the 113th Congress: (1) 

DEBATE              on legislative days of Monday or Tuesday when the 

                    House convenes pursuant to House Resolution 9, the 

                    House shall convene two hours earlier than the time 

                    otherwise established by the resolution for the 

                    purpose of conducting morning-hour debate; (2) on 

                    legislative days of Wednesday or Thursday, when the 

                    House convenes pursuant to House Resolution 9, the 

                    House shall convene two hours earlier than the time 

                    otherwise established by the resolution for the 

                    purpose of conducting morning-hour debate; (3) when 

                    the House convenes pursuant to an order other than 

                    House Resolution 9, the House shall convene for the 

                    purpose of conducting morning-hour debate only as 

                    prescribed by such order; (4) the time for morning-

                    hour debate shall be allocated equally between the 

                    parties and may not continue beyond 10 minutes 

                    before the hour appointed for the resumption of the 

                    session of the House; and (5) the form of proceeding 

                    for morning-hour debate shall be as follows: (a) the 

                    prayer by the Chaplain, the approval of the Journal 

                    and the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag shall be 

                    postponed until resumption of the session of the 

                    House; (b) initial and subsequent recognitions for 

                    debate shall alternate between the parties; (c) 

                    recognition shall be conferred by the Speaker only 

                    pursuant to lists submitted by the majority leader 

                    and by the minority leader; (d) no Member may 

                    address the House for longer than 5 minutes, except 

                    the majority leader, the minority leader, or the 

                    minority whip; (e) no legislative business shall be 

                    in order except the filing of privileged reports; 

                    and (f) following morning-hour debate, the Chair 

                    shall declare a recess pursuant to clause 12(a) of 

                    rule I until the time appointed for the resumption 

                    of the session of the House. (Agreed to Jan. 3, 

                    2013.)

DAILY HOURS OF  Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 9 and unless 

MEETING             otherwise ordered, the hour of daily meeting of the 

                    House shall be 2 p.m. on Mondays; noon on Tuesdays 

                    (or 2 p.m. if no legislative business was conducted 

                    on the preceding Monday); noon on Wednesdays and 

                    Thursdays; and 9 a.m. on all other days of the week. 

                    (Agreed to Jan. 3, 2013.)