[House Report 109-1]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



109th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                      109-1

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   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 54, CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL 
                        ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005

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  January 25, 2005.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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   Mr. Sessions, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 42]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 42, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 54, 
the Congressional Gold Medal Enhancement Act of 2005, under a 
structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee of Financial Services. The 
rule provides that the bill shall be considered as read for 
amendment.
    The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in 
this report. The rule provides that the amendments made in 
order may be offered only in the order printed in this report, 
may be offered only by a Member designated in this report, 
shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time 
specified in this report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, 
and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The 
rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed 
in this report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with 
are without instructions.
    Finally, section 2 of the rule provides that 
notwithstanding clause 11(a)(1) of rule XI, during the One 
Hundred Ninth Congress the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence shall be composed of not more than 19 members, of 
whom not more than 11 may be from the same party.

  SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER TO H.R. 54--CONGRESSIONAL GOLD 
                     MEDAL ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005

    (Summaries of amendments derived from information provided 
by the sponsor)
    1. Oxley: Manager's Amendment. Changes the effective date 
of the bill from ``after December 31, 2005'' to instead make 
the new limitation on the number of congressional gold medals 
effective on enactment of the bill. The change would insure 
that the guideline governing the medal program would be in 
effect for the whole of the 109th Congress and beyond, and not 
change in the middle of a Congress. (10 minutes)
    2. Crowley: Increases the limit of gold medals provided for 
under the bill from 2 per calendar years to 6 per Congress. (20 
minutes)
    3. Crowley: Provides for an equitable distribution of gold 
medals under the bill between the majority party and the 
minority party. (20 minutes)

                    TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER


 1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Oxley of Ohio, or His 
                   Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 2, beginning on line 2, strike ``During any calendar 
year beginning after December 31, 2005,'' and insert 
``Beginning on the date of the enactment of the Congressional 
Gold Medal Enhancement Act of 2005,''.
  Page 2, line 6, insert ``in any calendar year'' before the 
period at the end.
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2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Crowley of New York, or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

  Page 2, strike line 2 and all that follows through line 6 and 
insert the following new paragraph:

          ``(1) Maximum number.--During the 2-year period 
        comprising each Congress (beginning with the 109th 
        Congress), the Secretary of the Treasury may strike not 
        more than 6 congressional gold medals for presentation 
        pursuant to an Act of the Congress.''.
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3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Crowley of New York, or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes

  Page 2, line 6, insert ``and the Secretary may not strike any 
congressional gold medal, notwithstanding an Act of the 
Congress providing for the striking and presentation of such 
congressional gold medal during a period referred to in this 
paragraph, if at least half the total number of congressional 
gold medals permitted to be struck under this paragraph during 
such period were already authorized to be struck during such 
period pursuant to Acts of the Congress that were originally 
introduced as bills or joint resolutions by Members associated 
with the same political party as the political party with which 
the Member is associated who introduced the bill or resolution 
that resulted in the Act of the Congress that authorized the 
striking of such congressional gold medal'' before the period 
at the end.

                                  
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