[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18845]
[From the U.S. 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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