[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 147 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10948]
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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING QUESTION OF PRIVILEGES 
                              OF THE HOUSE

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House rule IX, clause 1, I 
rise to give notice to the House of my intention to offer a Question of 
Privilege to the House and offer a resolution expressing the sense of 
the House that its integrity has been impugned because the anti-dumping 
provision of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1930 (Subtitle B of Title VII) 
have not been expeditiously enforced.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

       Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of 
     Representatives, that the House of Representatives calls upon 
     the President to--
       (1) Immediately obtain voluntary restraint agreements from 
     Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Korea and Brazil which limit those 
     countries in July-to-June Fiscal Year 1999 to the level of 
     their exports as calculated from July-to-June Fiscal Year 
     1998;
       (2) Immediately impose a one-year ban on imports of hot-
     rolled steel products and plate steel products that are the 
     product or manufacture of Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Korea and 
     Brazil if he is unable to obtain voluntary restraint 
     agreements within 10 days;
       (3) pursue with all tools at his disposal a more equitable 
     sharing of the burden of accepting imports of finished steel 
     products from Asia and the countries within the Commonwealth 
     of Independent States;
       (4) establish a task force within the executive branch with 
     responsibility for closely monitoring United States imports 
     or steel; and
       (5) report to the Congress by no later than January 5, 
     1999, with a comprehensive plan for responding to this import 
     surge, including ways of limiting its deleterious effects on 
     employment, prices, and investment in the United States steel 
     industry.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ballenger). 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 designated by the Chair within 2 
legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed.
  Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) will appear in the Record at this 
point.
  The Chair at this point will not determine whether the resolution 
constitutes a question of privilege. That determination will be made at 
a time designated for consideration of the resolution.

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