[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D6-D7]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 16 public bills, H.R. 997, 
4413-4427; and 9 resolutions, H. Res. 998-1006 were introduced. 
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Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 2611, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize 
the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland 
Security, with an amendment (H. Rept. 111-389);
  H.R. 3342, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
the Commissioner of Reclamation, to develop water infrastructure in the 
Rio Grande Basin, and to approve the settlement of the water rights 
claims of the Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, and Tesuque, 
with an amendment (H. Rept. 111-390);
  H.R. 1065, to resolve water rights claims of the White Mountain 
Apache Tribe in the State of Arizona, with an amendment (H. Rept. 111-
391);
  H.R. 3644, to direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration to establish education and watershed programs which 
advance environmental literacy, including preparedness and adaptability 
for the likely impacts of climate change in coastal watershed regions, 
with an amendment (H. Rept. 111-392);
  H.R. 3726, to establish the Castle Nugent National Historic Site at 
St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, with an amendment (H. Rept. 
111-393);
  H.R. 3759, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant 
economy-related contract extensions of a certain timber contracts 
between the Secretary of the Interior and timber purchasers, with an 
amendment (H. Rept. 111-394); and
  H.R. 3254, to approve the Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement 
Agreement, with an amendment (H. Rept. 111-395).               
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Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Moran (VA) to act as Speaker Pro Tempore for today. 
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Recess: The House recessed at 12:01 p.m. and reconvened at 6:32 p.m. 
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Call of the House: The Speaker called the House to order and 
ascertained the presence of a quorum (373 present, Roll No. 1). 
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Committee to Notify the President of the assembly of the Congress: The 
House agreed to H. Res. 998, authorizing the Speaker to appoint a 
committee to join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify 
the President when a quorum of each House has assembled, and Congress 
is ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make. 
Subsequently, the Speaker appointed Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority 
Leader Boehner to the Committee.                               
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Notifying the Senate That a Quorum of the House Is Present: The House 
agreed to H. Res. 999, to authorize the Clerk of the House to inform 
the Senate that a quorum of the House is present and that the House is 
ready to proceed with business.                                
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Meeting Hour: The House agreed to H. Res. 1000, establishing the hour 
of daily meeting of the House.                                 
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Morning Hour Debate: Agreed by unanimous consent that the order of the 
House of January 6, 2009, providing for Morning Hour Debate, be 
extended for the remainder of the 111th Congress, except that pursuant 
to H. Res. 1000, the date of May 17, 2010 shall be used in lieu of May 
18, 2009.                                                      
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Consideration of Presidential Veto Message: Agreed by unanimous consent 
that if a veto message on H.J. Res. 64 is laid before the House on the 
legislative day of January 12, 2010, then after the message is read and 
the objections of the President are spread at large upon the Journal, 
further consideration of the veto message and the joint resolution 
shall be postponed until the legislative day of January 13, 2010, and 
that on that legislative day, the House shall proceed to the 
constitutional question of reconsideration and dispose of such question 
without intervening motion.                                    
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Presidential Veto Message--Making further continuing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2010: Read a message from the President wherein he 
transmitted his Memorandum of Disapproval of H.J. Res. 64, making 
further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2010, and explained 
his reasons therefor--ordered printed (H. Doc. 111-84).        
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Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he 
transmitted a proclamation entitled ``To Modify Duty-Free Treatment 
Under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes--
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered printed (H. 
Doc. 111-85).                                                  
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Quorum Calls--Votes: One quorum call (Roll No. 1) developed during the 
proceedings of today and appears on pages H9-10.
Adjournment: The House met at 12 noon and adjourned at 10 p.m.