[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 153 (Thursday, December 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H11748-H11749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING QUESTION OF 
                        PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to rule IX, I hereby give notice of 
my

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intention to offer a resolution which raises a question of the 
privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows:
       Whereas rule IX of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives provides that questions of privilege shall 
     arise whenever the rights of the House collectively or the 
     Members individually in their representative capacity are 
     affected;
       Whereas under the precedents, customs, and traditions of 
     the House pursuant to rule IX, a question of privilege has 
     arisen in cases involving the constitutional prerogatives of 
     the House and of Members of the House; and
       Whereas the House is prepared to consider a resolution 
     impeaching the President, and the Delegate to the Congress 
     from the District of Columbia seeks to assert the 
     constitutional prerogative to cast a vote in the 
     consideration of the resolution: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. PROVIDING VOTE FOR DELEGATE FROM THE DISTRICT OF 
                   COLUMBIA IN CONSIDERATION OF PRESIDENTIAL 
                   IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTIONS.

       Pursuant to section 2 of article I of the Constitution and 
     the twenty-third article of amendment thereto granting the 
     people of the District of Columbia the right to vote in 
     presidential elections, the Delegate to the Congress from the 
     District of Columbia shall be permitted to cast a vote in the 
     House of Representatives in the same manner as a member of 
     the House in the consideration by the House of any resolution 
     impeaching the President or Vice President of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       Section 1 shall apply with respect to any resolution 
     impeaching the President or Vice President of the United 
     States that is considered by the House of Representatives 
     after the adoption of this resolution.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). 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 
gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) will appear in 
the Record at this point. The Chair will not at this point determine 
whether the resolution constitutes a question of privilege. That 
determination will be made at the time designated for consideration of 
the resolution.

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