[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 132 (Tuesday, December 5, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H8703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 AUTHORIZING PRINTING OF ``UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE 
          COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS: A HISTORY, 1789-2006''

  Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of the 
concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 495) authorizing the printing as a 
House document of ``United States House of Representatives, The 
Committee on Ways and Means: A History, 1789-2006,'' 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 Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the concurrent resolution, as follows

                            H. Con. Res. 495

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

     SECTION 1. PRINTING OF DOCUMENT.

       (a) In General.--The document entitled ``United States 
     House of Representatives, The Committee on Ways and Means: A 
     History, 1789-2006'', prepared under the direction of the 
     Office of the Historian, United States House of 
     Representatives, shall be printed as a House document, with 
     illustrations and suitable binding, in a style and manner 
     determined by the Joint Committee on Printing.
       (b) Additional Copies.--With respect to the document 
     described in subsection (a), in addition to the usual number 
     there shall be printed the lesser of--
       (1) 1,500 copies, of which 50 shall be bound in leather for 
     the use of Members of the Committee on Ways and Means and 500 
     shall be casebound for distribution by the Committee on Ways 
     and Means; or
       (2) the maximum number of copies for which the total 
     production and printing cost does not exceed $40,000, with 
     production and distribution to be allocated in the same 
     proportion as described in paragraph (1).

  The concurrent resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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