[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 170 (Friday, November 21, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H12230]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary 
inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The gentlewoman will state it.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, is it my understanding that 
the rule we are about to take up for the underlying bill, H.R. 1, is a 
rule that is pursuant to a conference and a conference report where 
Democratic conferees were not even allowed into the room and where the 
Committee on Rules did not address the elimination or the lack of 
acknowledgment of the participation of the Democratic conferees? Is 
this H.R. 1 that we are about to take up? And is there any way for the 
points of order to be in order so that we could address that question 
on the floor of the House?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The chair is about to recognize a member 
from the Committee on Rules to call up the rule, which will be read to 
the House.

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