[House Calendars, Final - 109th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section Page
Special orders................................................................................. 0 2
Unfinished business............................................................................ 0 3
Morning hour call of committees................................................................ 0 6
Calendar Wednesday business.................................................................... 0 6
Special legislative days....................................................................... 0 6
Calendars:
Union........................................................................................ 1 1
House........................................................................................ 2 1
Private...................................................................................... 3 1
Motions to discharge committees.............................................................. 4 1
Laws--numerical list by law number............................................................. 5 1
Titles of bills and resolutions which have become laws:
House bills:
Public laws................................................................................ 6 1
Private laws............................................................................... 6 15
House joint resolutions:
Public laws................................................................................ 6 16
Private laws............................................................................... 6 17
Senate bills:
Public laws................................................................................ 6 18
Private laws............................................................................... 6 25
Senate joint resolutions:
Public laws................................................................................ 6 26
Private laws............................................................................... 6 27
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed while Congress was in session)........................ 6 28
Acts which failed to become laws (vetoed after adjournment of Congress)........................ 6 29
Acts which were vetoed but became laws......................................................... 6 30
Acts which became laws without the approval of the President (while Congress was in session)... 6 31
Pocket vetoes (during recess).................................................................. 6 32
Pocket vetoes (after adjournment of Congress).................................................. 6 33
Bills not signed or returned to Congress notwithstanding intrasession adjournment of the two 6 34
Houses........................................................................................
Numerical order of bills and resolutions which have been reported to or considered by either or
both Houses...................................................................................
House bills.................................................................................. 7 1
Joint resolutions.......................................................................... 8 1
Concurrent resolutions..................................................................... 9 1
Resolutions................................................................................ 10 1
Senate bills................................................................................. 11 1
Joint resolutions.......................................................................... 12 1
Concurrent resolutions..................................................................... 13 1
Resolutions (of interest to the House)..................................................... 14 1
Numerical order of reported bills and resolutions which have been referred to committees under 15 1
time limitations..............................................................................
Bills in conference............................................................................ 16 1
Bills through conference....................................................................... 17 1
Index (short titles)........................................................................... 18 1
Index (subject)................................................................................ 18 7
Statistical recapitulation:
First session................................................................................ 18 55
Second session............................................................................... 18 56
Congresses................................................................................... 18 57
Comparison of work in previous Congresses...................................................... 18 58
Recapitulation and analysis of bills and resolutions:
Footnotes of previous Congresses............................................................. 18 59
First session................................................................................ 18 72
Second session............................................................................... 18 73
Congress..................................................................................... 18 74
Calendar of year 2005.......................................................................... 19 1
Calendar of year 2006.......................................................................... 19 2
Status of major bills (first session).......................................................... 19 3
Status of major bills (second session)......................................................... 19 4
THE MORNING HOUR FOR THE CALL OF COMMITTEES
Rule XIV, clause 4:
``4. After the unfinished business has been disposed of, the
Speaker shall call each standing committee in regular order and then
select committees. Each committee when named may call up for
consideration a bill or resolution reported by it on a previous day and
on the House Calendar. If the Speaker does not complete the call of the
committees before the House passes to other business, the next call
shall resume at the point it left off, giving preference to the last
bill or resolution under consideration. A committee that has occupied
the call for two days may not call up another bill or resolution until
the other committees have been called in their turn.''
Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.
CALENDAR WEDNESDAY BUSINESS
Rule XV, clause 7:
``7. (a) On Wednesday of each week, business shall not be in
order before completion of the call of the committees (except as
provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) unless two-thirds of the Members
voting, a quorum being present, agree to a motion that the House
dispense with the call. Such a motion shall be privileged. Debate on
such a motion shall be limited to five minutes in support and five
minutes in opposition.
(b) A bill or resolution on either the House or the Union
Calendar, except bills or resolutions that are privileged under the
Rules of the House, may be called under this clause. A bill or
resolution called up from the Union Calendar shall be considered in the
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without motion,
subject to clause 3 of rule XVI. General debate on a measure considered
under this clause shall be confined to the measure and may not exceed
two hours equally divided between a proponent and an opponent.
(c) When a committee has occupied the call under this clause on
one Wednesday, it shall not be in order on a succeeding Wednesday to
consider unfinished business previously called up by that committee
until the other committees have been called in their turn unless--
(1) the previous question has been ordered on such
unfinished business; or
(2) the House adopts a motion to dispense with the call
under paragraph (a).
(d) If any committee has not been called under this clause
during a session of a Congress, then at the next session of that
Congress the call shall resume where it left off at the end of the
preceding session.
(e) This rule does not apply during the last two weeks of a
session of Congress.
(f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion for a recess on a
Wednesday except during the last two weeks of a session of Congress.''
Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.
SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE DAYS
Calendar Wednesday.............. Wednesday of each week, except
during the last 2 weeks of a session
(clause 7, rule XV).
Discharge Calendar.............. Second and fourth Mondays of each
month, except during the last 6 days
of a session (clause 2, rule XV).
District of Columbia business... Second and fourth Mondays of each
month (clause 4, rule XV).
Private Calendar................ First and third Tuesdays of each
month (clause 5, rule XV).
Suspension of rules............. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
and during the last 6 days of a
session (clause 1, rule XV).