[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4142-H4143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES

  Ms. WATERS. I have a parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state her parliamentary 
inquiry.
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, if you do not have the power by which to 
grant unanimous consent, acting on the Speaker's behalf, how, then, do 
you have the power to grant the opportunity for this to be put in the 
Record and to be dealt with tomorrow?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair can entertain a unanimous-consent 
request at any time at the Chair's discretion.
  Ms. WATERS. But then, Mr. Speaker, you are exercising the discretion 
of the Speaker, as I understand it, sir, but you do not have the power 
to exercise that discretion fully? There appears to be a contradiction 
here.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has the power of recognition. The 
Chair chooses not to exercise it now, under the bipartisan guidelines 
as suggested earlier.
  Mr. DEUTSCH. A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Speaker, was the objection of the gentleman from 
Kansas [Mr. Tiahrt] to the motion by the gentlewoman from Colorado 
[Mrs. Schroeder]? Therefore, I believe I have the opportunity to seek 
to address the House for 1 minute, not the issue regarding the printing 
of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, it was the 
gentleman from Florida [Mr. Deutsch] who asked for the unanimous-
consent request.
  Mr. DEUTSCH. Again, Mr. Speaker, I would stand corrected, but I 
believe the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] asked for that 
request, and it was actually slightly different, both the printing and 
the attempt to talk. It would actually be the first time this issue was 
ever discussed on the floor, so it might be an appropriate thing. It is 
a significant issue.
  [[Page H4143]] The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Deutsch] have a request at this time?

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