[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 6 (Friday, January 6, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H49]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER

  The SPEAKER. The Chair would like to make a statement concerning the 
introduction and reference of bills.
  Since the rules of the 118th Congress have not yet been adopted, the 
rights of Members to introduce bills, and the authority of the Speaker 
to refer them, is delayed.
  The Chair will state that submitted bills will be held until adoption 
of the rules, at which time they will be referred as expeditiously as 
possible to the appropriate committee. At that time, the bills which 
are not referred and do not appear in the Record as of that day will be 
included in the next day's Record and printed with a date as of the 
time that the rules were adopted.

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