Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.

        [Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 324 Introduced in House (IH)]

108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 324

Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 18, 2003

Ms. Pelosi submitted the following resolution

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RESOLUTION

Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.

Whereas during a meeting of the Committee on Ways and Means on July 18, 2003,
for the consideration of the bill H.R. 1776, the chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means offered an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
Whereas during the reading of that amendment the chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee directed majority staff of the committee to ask the United
States Capitol Police to remove minority-party members of the committee
from a room of the committee during the meeting, causing the United
States Capitol Police thereupon to confront the minority-party members
of the committee; and
Whereas pending a unanimous-consent request to dispense with the reading of that
amendment the chairman deliberately and improperly refused to recognize
a legitimate and timely objection by a member of the committee: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the
manner in which Representative Thomas conducted the markup of
legislation in the Committee on Ways and Means on July 18, 2003, and
finds that the bill considered at that markup was not validly ordered
reported to the House.
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