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109TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 109–1 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 54, CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005 

JANUARY 25, 2005.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. SESSIONS, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 42] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 42, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to the House 

with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 54, the Congressional Gold Medal Enhancement Act of 2005, under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee of Financial Services. The rule provides that 

the bill shall be considered as read for amendment. 

The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in this 

report. The rule provides that the amendments made in order may 

be offered only in the order printed in this report, may be offered 

only by a Member designated in this report, shall be considered as 

read, shall be debatable for the time specified in this report equally 

divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not 

be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for 

division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 

Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments 

printed in this report. The rule provides one motion to recommit 

with are without instructions. 

Finally, section 2 of the rule provides that notwithstanding 

clause 11(a)(1) of rule XI, during the One Hundred Ninth Congress 

the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence shall be composed 

of not more than 19 members, of whom not more than 11 may be 

from the same party. 

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SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER TO H.R. 54— CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005

(Summaries of amendments derived from information provided 

by the sponsor) 

1. Oxley: Manager’s Amendment. Changes the effective date of 

the bill from ‘‘after December 31, 2005’’ to instead make the new 

limitation on the number of congressional gold medals effective on 

enactment of the bill. The change would insure that the guideline 

governing the medal program would be in effect for the whole of 

the 109th Congress and beyond, and not change in the middle of 

a Congress. (10 minutes) 

2. Crowley: Increases the limit of gold medals provided for under 

the bill from 2 per calendar years to 6 per Congress. (20 minutes) 

3. Crowley: Provides for an equitable distribution of gold medals 

under the bill between the majority party and the minority party. 

(20 minutes) 

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER 

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE OXLEY OF

OHIO, OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 2, beginning on line 2, strike ‘‘During any calendar year beginning after December 31, 2005,’’ and insert ‘‘Beginning on the 

date of the enactment of the Congressional Gold Medal Enhancement Act of 2005,’’. 

Page 2, line 6, insert ‘‘in any calendar year’’ before the period at 

the end. 

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CROWLEY

OF NEW YORK, OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 20 MINUTES

Page 2, strike line 2 and all that follows through line 6 and insert the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(1) MAXIMUM NUMBER.—During the 2-year period 

comprising each Congress (beginning with the 109th 

Congress), the Secretary of the Treasury may strike 

not more than 6 congressional gold medals for presentation pursuant to an Act of the Congress.’’. 

3. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CROWLEY

OF NEW YORK, OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 20 MINUTES

Page 2, line 6, insert ‘‘and the Secretary may not strike any congressional gold medal, notwithstanding an Act of the Congress providing for the striking and presentation of such congressional gold 

medal during a period referred to in this paragraph, if at least half 

the total number of congressional gold medals permitted to be 

struck under this paragraph during such period were already authorized to be struck during such period pursuant to Acts of the 

Congress that were originally introduced as bills or joint resolutions by Members associated with the same political party as the 

political party with which the Member is associated who introduced 

the bill or resolution that resulted in the Act of the Congress that 

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authorized the striking of such congressional gold medal’’ before 

the period at the end. 

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