[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16167]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         AUTHORIZING REPAIR OF MACE OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a resolution (H. Res. 957) and I 
ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. REPAIR OF MACE OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

       (a) Delivery for Repair.--The Sergeant at Arms of the House 
     of Representatives is authorized and directed, on behalf of 
     the House of Representatives, to deliver the mace of the 
     House of Representatives, following an adjournment of the 
     House pursuant to concurrent resolution, to the Secretary of 
     the Smithsonian Institution only for the purpose of having 
     necessary repairs made to the mace and under such 
     circumstances as will assure that the mace is properly 
     safeguarded.
       (b) Return.--The mace shall be returned to the House of 
     Representatives before noon on the day before the House next 
     reconvenes pursuant to concurrent resolution or at any sooner 
     time when so directed by the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Ohio?
  There was no objection.
  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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