[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 112 (Thursday, July 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8592]
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. TIAHRT. 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 privilege of the House.
  The form of my resolution is as follows:

       Whereas the gentleman from Kansas, Mr. Tiahrt submitted an 
     amendment to the Committee on Rules to H.R. 3288, 
     Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010; Whereas the said 
     gentleman's amendment would have prohibited salaries and 
     expenses from being paid to individuals who obligate money 
     under the stimulus FHWA program for road signs that are 
     placed at construction sites to alert motorists that the 
     project is being paid for by stimulus money; 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 free speech on 
     this Floor; and,
       Whereas the Speaker, Mrs. Pelosi, the Democratic 
     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 Kansas'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 Kansas 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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