[House Report 109-606]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



109th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     109-606

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 WAIVING A REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 6(a) OF RULE XIII WITH RESPECT TO THE 
  SAME DAY CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS REPORTED BY THE RULES 
                               COMMITTEE

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   July 27, 2006.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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Mr. Hastings of Washington, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 958]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 958, 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 waives clause 6(a) of rule XIII (requiring a 
two-thirds vote to consider a rule on the same day it is 
reported from the Rules Committee) against certain resolutions 
reported from the Rules Committee. The rule applies the waiver 
to any special rule reported on the legislative day of July 28, 
2006, providing for consideration or disposition of any of the 
following measures:
    (1) A conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2830) 
to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the pension 
funding rules, and for other purposes;
    (2) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an 
exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset 
provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to 
extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes; and
    (3) A bill to provide economic security for all Americans, 
and for other purposes.

                                  
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