[Deschler-Brown Precedents, Volume 10, Chapter 28 (Sections 1-24), Volume 11, Chapter 28 (Sections 25-end, plus index)]
[Chapter 28. Amendments and the Germaneness Rule]
[A. General Principles]
[Â§ 16. Consent Calendar Bills]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               CHAPTER 28
 
                  Amendments and the Germaneness Rule
 
                         A. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
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Sec. 16. Consent Calendar Bills

    The rule requiring germaneness of amendments is applicable to 
amendments, including a committee amendment, to a Consent Calendar 
bill.(16)
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16. See, for example, Sec. 16.1, 
        infra.

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Appointment of Additional Army Officers--Amendment To Establish 
    Optometry Corps

Sec. 16.1 To a bill to provide for the appointment of additional 
    commissioned officers in the regular army, a committee amendment 
    providing

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    for the establishment of an Optometry Corps in the Medical 
    Department of the Army was held to be not germane.

    The following proceedings in the 79th Congress (17) 
related to a question of the germaneness of a committee amendment to 
the above-described Consent Calendar bill:
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17. 92 Cong. Rec. 9111, 9112, 79th Cong. 2d Sess., July 16, 1946. The 
        Speaker was Sam Rayburn (Tex.); under consideration was H.R. 
        6817 (Committee on Military Affairs).
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        The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 6817) to provide for the 
    appointment of additional commissioned officers in the Regular 
    Army, and for other purposes. . . .
        With the following committee amendment:

            After line 14, page 1, of the bill add the following:
            ``Sec. 2. There is hereby established in the Medical 
        Department of the Army, a corps to be known as the Optometry 
        Corps. . . .
            ``Sec. 3. To be eligible for appointment in the Optometry 
        Corps, a candidate must be a graduate of a recognized optometry 
        school or college approved by the Surgeon General.''. . . 

        Mr. [W. Sterling] Cole of New York: Mr. Speaker, I make a point 
    of order against the committee amendment on the ground that it is 
    not germane to the bill.
        The Speaker: The Chair holds that the point of order made by 
    the gentleman from New York is well taken and sustains the point of 
    order.