[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 206 (Thursday, December 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H15543-H15544]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER PRIVILEGED RESOLUTION PROVIDING DEFICIT 
      REDUCTION AND ACHIEVE A BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 2002

  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to rule IX, I rise 
to 

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give notice that I will seek recognition as a question of the 
privileges of the House to offer a resolution in the following form. 
The resolution is at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will read the resolution for the 
gentleman from Mississippi.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                               H. Res. --

       Whereas clause 1 of rule IX of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives states that ``Questions of privilege shall 
     be, first, those affecting the rights of the House 
     collectively'';
       Whereas article 1, section 9, clause 7 of the Constitution 
     states that: ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but 
     in Consequence of Appropriations made by law;
       Whereas today, December 21, 1995, marks the 81st day that 
     this Congress has been delinquent in fulfilling its statutory 
     responsibility of enacting a budget into law; and
       Whereas by failing to enact a budget into law this body has 
     failed to fulfill one of its most basic constitutionally 
     mandated duties, that of appropriating the necessary funds to 
     allow the Government to operate: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Committee on Rules is authorized and 
     directed to forthwith report a resolution providing for the 
     consideration of H.R. 2530 (a bill to provide for deficit 
     reduction and achieve a balanced budget by fiscal year 2002).

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair advises the gentleman from 
Mississippi that under rule IX, a resolution offered from the floor by 
a Member other than the majority leader or the minority leader as a 
question of the privileges of the House has immediate precedence only 
at a time or a place designated by the Speaker in the legislative 
schedule within 2 legislative days, its being properly noticed. That 
designation will be announced at a later time. In the meantime, the 
form of the resolution proffered by the gentleman from Mississippi will 
appear in the Record at this point.
  The Chair is not at this point making a determination as to whether 
the resolution constitutes a question of privilege. The determination 
will be made at the time designated for consideration of the 
resolution.
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, would the Chair be kind 
enough to give me some indication of how much warning that I would 
receive as a Member as to when this would be brought before the House?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will give adequate notice, as has 
always been the case.
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Could the chair give a better definition 
of ``adequate notice''?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Not at this time.
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. I thank the Chair.

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