[Deschler-Brown Precedents, Volume 16, Chapters 32 - 33]
[Chapter 32. House-Senate Relations]
[A. INTRODUCTORY]
[Â§ 4. House Action on Senate Resolutions]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                House-Senate Relations
 
                  A. INTRODUCTORY
 
Sec.    4. House Action on Senate Resolutions

Senate resolutions, concurrent and joint, are subject to various 
legislative actions in the House as are Senate-passed bills.(18) Simple 

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15.     Parliamentarian's Note: Since a pri-vate Senate bill resulting in
the expenditure of public funds (and thus requiring consideration in 
the Committee of the Whole) is not privileged and cannot be taken from 
the Speaker's table by motion for direct action by the House, the House 
adopted a resolution taking the bill from the table and providing for 
its consideration.
16.     79 CONG. REC. 13993, 74th Cong. 1st Sess.
17.     See House Rules and Manual Sec. 893 (1997).
18.     See Sec.Sec. 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, infra.
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Senate resolutions are sent to the House for information only and are
generally held at the Speaker's table and not referred.(19)

Return to Senate

Sec.    4.1 The House agreed to a request of the Senate for the return 
of a Senate concurrent resolution with accompanying papers.
On Sept. 14, 1961,(20) the Speaker Pro Tempore, John W. McCormack, of
Massachusetts, laid before the House the following request of the Senate:

Ordered, That the House of Representatives be requested to return to  
the Senate the concurrent resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 14)
entitled "Concurrent resolution saluting 'Uncle Sam' Wilson, of Troy, 
N.Y., as the progenitor of America's national symbol of 'Uncle Sam'," 
with the accompanying papers.
FELTON M. JOHNSTON,
Secretary.
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: Without objection, the request is granted.
There was no objection.
Consideration Under Five-minute Rule

Sec.    4.2 A Senate joint resolution at the Speaker's table may be 
called up by unanimous consent and considered under the five-minute 
rule.
On July 31, 1967,(1) the following occurred in the House:

MR. [JAMES C.] CORMAN [of California]: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent for the immediate consideration of the Senate joint resolution 
(S.J. Res. 98) authorizing the National Advisory Commission on Civil 
Disorders to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the
production of evidence.
The Clerk read the title of the Senate joint resolution.
THE SPEAKER:(2) Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from
California?
MR. [H. R.] GROSS [of Iowa]: Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, 
I should like to ask the sponsor of this Senate joint resolution if 
under this unanimous-consent request the gentleman proposes to yield 
time, and how much time is to be taken in the consideration thereof. . . .
Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry.
THE SPEAKER: The gentleman from Iowa will state his parliamentary 
inquiry.

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19.     See Sec. 1.2, infra.
20.     107 CONG. REC. 19540, 87th Cong. 1st Sess.
 1.     113 CONG. REC. 20604, 90th Cong. 1st Sess.
 2.     John W. McCormack (Mass.).
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MR. GROSS: How much time will be taken on this Senate joint resolution?
THE SPEAKER: The Chair will state to the gentleman from Iowa that if 
the unanimous-consent request is granted, the resolution comes before 
the House under the 5-minute rule.(3) 
MR. GROSS: Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
THE SPEAKER: Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from
California?
There was no objection.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole

Sec.    4.3 The House may adopt a resolution providing for the 
consideration in the Committee of the Whole of a Senate joint 
resolution which had not been referred to a House committee and on 
which there was no House report.
On Sept. 24, 1962,(4) Mr. William M. Colmer, of Mississippi, by 
direction of the Committee on Rules, called up House Resolution 804.

The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in 
order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the 
joint resolution (S.J. Res. 224) to authorize the President to order 
units and members in the Ready Reserve to active duty for not more than 
twelve months, and for other purposes. . . .

THE SPEAKER:(5) The question is on the resolution.
The resolution was agreed to.

Parliamentarian's Note: The Senate joint resolution was held at the 
Speaker's table and not referred to a committee, since the House 
Committee on Armed Services reported an identical House joint 
resolution the same day the Senate joint resolution was messaged to 
the House.
Provisions of House Resolution Inserted

Sec.    4.4 By unanimous consent a Senate joint resolution was taken 
from the Speaker's ta-

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 3.     S.J. Res. 98 was being held at the Speaker's table. While it had 
not been referred to a House committee, it was a measure that if 
reported in the House would have been placed  on the Union Calendar. 
Where the House grants unanimous consent for consideration of a measure 
that would be on the Union Calendar if reported, the bill is considered 
in the House as in the Committee of the Whole. See proceedings of Apr. 
6, 1966, at 112 CONG. REC. 7749, 89th Cong. 2d Sess. and Jefferson's 
Manual, House Rules and Manual Sec. 424 (1997).
 4.     108 CONG. REC. 20489, 20494, 87th Cong. 2d Sess.
 5.     John W. McCormack (Mass.).
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ble, the preamble and all after the resolving 
clause stricken; and preamble and provisions of a similar House joint
resolution were then inserted by amendment.
On Jan. 8, 1964,(6) after the House considered House Joint Resolution 
871, providing for renaming the National Cultural Center the John F. 
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the following occurred:

THE SPEAKER:(7) The question is on the passage of the [House] joint
resolution.
The joint resolution was passed.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
MR. [ROBERT E.] JONES of Alabama: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
to take from the Speaker's table Senate Joint Resolution 136, a similar 
joint resolution to House Joint Resolution 871 just passed; strike out 
all after the enacting clause of Senate Joint Resolution 136, and 
insert the provisions of House Joint Resolution 871.
The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
THE SPEAKER: Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Alabama? . . .
MR. JONES of Alabama: Mr. Speaker, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Jones of Alabama: Strike out the preamble and 
all after the resolving clause of Senate Joint Resolution 136 and 
insert the preamble and provisions of House Joint Resolution 871 as 
passed.

THE SPEAKER: The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman 
from Alabama.
The amendment was agreed to.
Deletion of Senate Amendment to House Bill

Sec.    4.5 By unanimous consent, the House considered and agreed to a 
Senate concurrent resolution authorizing the Clerk, in the enrollment 
of a House bill, to delete a Senate amendment thereto.
On Sept. 28, 1971,(8) Speaker Carl Albert, of Oklahoma, recognized Mr. 
B. F. Sisk, of California:

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration 
of the Senate concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 42), providing for a
deletion in the enrollment of H.R. 4713. . . .
THE SPEAKER: The Clerk will report the Senate concurrent resolution.
The Clerk read the Senate concurrent resolution as follows:

                    S. CON. RES. 42
Resolved by the Senate (House of Representatives concurring), That the 

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 6.     110 CONG. REC. 145, 146, 88th Cong. 2d Sess.
 7.     John W. McCormack (Mass.).
 8.     117 CONG. REC. 33715, 92d Cong. 1st Sess.
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enrollment of H.R. 4713, the Clerk of the House of Representatives be
authorized to delete Senate amendment numbered 5, which inserts at 
page 3, after the second line following line 6, a new section 7.

THE SPEAKER: Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from
California? . . . 
There was no objection.
The Senate concurrent resolution was concurred in.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

Parliamentarian's Note: The Senate had adopted several numbered 
amendments to the House bill, and the House had agreed to Senate 
amendment number 5. The Senate then decided to recede from that 
amendment, which it could not do except by concurrent action of the 
two Houses in correcting the enrollment of the bill.