[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 112 (Thursday, July 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING A QUESTION OF THE 
                        PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of 
rule IX, I hereby notify the House of my intention to offer a 
resolution as a question of the privileges of the House.
  The form of my resolution is as follows:

       Whereas the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Price, submitted an 
     amendment to the Committee on Rules to H.R. 3288, the 
     Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010;
       Whereas the said gentleman's amendment would have required 
     that none of the funds made available in this Act be used to 
     establish, issue, implement, administer, or enforce any 
     prohibition or restriction on the otherwise lawful possession 
     or use of firearms in federally assisted housing;
       Whereas the Second Amendment of the United States 
     constitution guarantees that ``the right of the people to 
     keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed'';
       Whereas the Second Amendment applies equally to all 
     Americans, regardless of who owns or pays for their housing;
       Whereas the gentleman's amendment complied with all 
     applicable Rules of the House for amendments to 
     appropriations measures and would have been in order under an 
     open amendment process, but regrettably the House Democratic 
     leadership has dramatically and historically reduced the 
     opportunity for open debate on this Floor; and
       Whereas the Speaker, Mrs. Pelosi, the Democrat leadership, 
     and the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Mr. 
     Obey, prevented the House from voting on the amendment by 
     excluding it from the list of amendments made in order under 
     the rule for the bill: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That H. Res. 669, the rule to accompany H.R. 
     3288, be amended to allow the gentleman from Georgia's 
     amendment be considered and voted on in the House.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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 Georgia 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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