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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. CON. RES. 6 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Providing for certain procedures for bringing debate to a close on any question |
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| 6 | 6 | | in the House of Representatives and Senate, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. W |
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| 10 | 10 | | ILLIAMSof Georgia submitted the following concurrent resolution; which |
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| 11 | 11 | | was referred to the Committee on Rules |
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| 12 | 12 | | CONCURRENT RESOLUTION |
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| 13 | 13 | | Providing for certain procedures for bringing debate to a |
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| 14 | 14 | | close on any question in the House of Representatives |
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| 15 | 15 | | and Senate, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | concurring), 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Majority Rule 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Resolution’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION OF BILLS AND 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | RESOLUTIONS. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) I |
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| 24 | 24 | | NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any provision of 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Standing 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Rules of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Senate may not require that more than a majority of the 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Members of either House of Congress voting, a quorum 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | being present, is required to bring debate to a close on 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | any question in such House. 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (b) R |
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| 35 | 35 | | ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | S |
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| 37 | 37 | | ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules of 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | in the case of the bill or joint resolution involved, 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | and supersede other rules only to the extent that it 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | is inconsistent with such rules; and 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | right of either House to change the rules (so far as 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the case of any other rule of that House. 19 |
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