[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7-H8]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE ASSEMBLY 
                            OF THE CONGRESS

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 3) 
and ask for its immediate consideration.

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  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                               H. Res. 3

       Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by 
     the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to 
     join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the 
     President of the United States that a quorum of each House 
     has assembled and Congress is ready to receive any 
     communication that he may be pleased to make.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints as members of the committee on the 
part of the House to join a committee on the part of the Senate to 
notify the President of the United States that a quorum of each House 
has been assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any 
communication that he may be pleased to make, the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Armey] and the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt].

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