[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 175 (Monday, December 8, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H12862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 AUTHORIZING PRINTING AS HOUSE DOCUMENT TRANSCRIPTS OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
 ``THE CHANGING NATURE OF THE HOUSE SPEAKERSHIP: THE CANNON CENTENARY 
                              CONFERENCE''

  Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on 
House Administration be discharged from further consideration of the 
concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 345) authorizing the printing as a 
House document of the transcripts of the proceedings of ``The Changing 
Nature of the House Speakership: The Cannon Centenary Conference,'' 
sponsored by the Congressional Research Service on November 12, 2003, 
and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Ohio?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the concurrent resolution, as follows:

                            H. Con. Res. 345

       Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
     concurring), 

     SECTION 1. PRINTING OF DOCUMENT.

       (a) In General.--The transcripts of the proceedings of 
     ``The Changing Nature of the House Speakership: The Cannon 
     Centenary Conference'', sponsored by the Congressional 
     Research Service on November 12, 2003, shall be printed as a 
     House document, in a style and manner determined by the Joint 
     Committee on Printing.
       (b) Additonal Copies for House and Senate.--There shall be 
     printed for the use of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate such aggregate number of copies of the document 
     printed under subsection (a) as the Joint Committee on 
     Printing determines to be appropriate, except that the 
     maximum number of copies which may be printed shall be the 
     number for which the aggregate printing cost does not exceed 
     $65,000.
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to support the 
concurrent resolution sponsored by the distinguished Chairman of the 
Joint Committee on Printing and the House Administration Committee, the 
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Ney]. On November 12, 2003, it was my pleasure 
to attend the Congressional Research Service's conference exploring the 
transformation of the House speakership during the last 100 years. I 
was able to attend nearly all of this very interesting conference and 
was able to gain a much greater understanding of the way the 
speakership has changed over the years as well as the history of this 
great institution. I am hopeful that by printing the remarks made at 
this event and distributing copies to our colleagues, they will also be 
able to similarly benefit from it as well.
  Entitled ``The Changing Nature of the House Speakership: The Cannon 
Centenary Conference,'' the symposium offered those of us keenly 
interested in the history of this institution a remarkable insight into 
the development of the speakership in the modern period. Under the 
leadership of Daniel Mulhollan, the Director of the Congressional 
Research Service, participants enjoyed remarks by our distinguished 
present speaker [Mr. Hastert], and all the living former speakers, Newt 
Gingrich, Tom Foley, and Jim Wright. Several other former members of 
the House, and a number of scholars, delivered remarks, including Dr. 
Robert Remini, author of the preeminent biographer of Henry Clay, a 
seminar figure in the development of the speakership during the 19th 
Century. Dr. Remini's presentation was, as always, especially 
thoughtful and entertaining, whetting the appetite of all of us eager 
to read the congressionally authorized history of the House, which he 
is now writing.
  The resolution provides for the printing of the transcript of the 
conference as a House document, thus ensuring that the remarks and 
other materials discussed in this historic event will remain available 
for present and future Members, scholars, and others intrigued by the 
ongoing history of this honorable institution in which we have the 
pleasure to serve today.
  I want to thank Dan Mulhollan and CRS for organizing the conference, 
and all who participated. I would also like to commend the chairman and 
his very able majority staff director for the Joint Committee on 
Printing, Maria Sophia Robinson, for introducing this printing 
resolution. I would also like to note the hard work of Mike Harrison 
who covers Joint Committee on Printing matters for me and whom I 
consider to be the minority staff director of the Joint Committee for 
the House. Just last month we expedited a housekeeping bill to resolve 
a longstanding problem affecting the Congressional Record Index Office. 
I am delighted that we have again moved so quickly to take up another 
issue under our joint committee's jurisdiction, I would like to call on 
my colleagues to join in urging the passage of this resolution.
  The concurrent resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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