[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10053]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, may I propound a parliamentary inquiry?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary 
inquiry.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I have sat here for over an hour now 
waiting to bring before this body nine very, very important measures 
dealing with our relationship with the Communist People's Republic of 
China, and during that hour we have been delayed, we have listened to a 
number of notices of questions of privilege. One of them was by our 
good friend, and she is a good friend, the gentlewoman from California 
[Ms. Roybal-Allard], and as I listened to her make notice, I came 
across the October 31, 1997, page H9814, Congressional Record, which is 
entitled ``An Announcement of Intention to Offer Resolution Raising 
Question of Privileges of the House,'' and it seems to me that the 
gentlewoman from California repeated exactly what she had noticed on 
October 31.
  My question to the Chair is, it would seem, whether intentional or 
unintentional, that that would be deleterious in rising to make notice 
on the same question while one was pending. What is the parliamentary 
situation there?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will examine the announced 
resolution to determine whether it is identical to another one 
considered by the House on the same day.

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