H. Res. 125

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

March 3, 2005.

Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule

XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the

Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of

the bill (H.R. 841) to require States to hold special elections

to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives not later

than 45 days after the vacancy is announced by the Speaker

of the House of Representatives in extraordinary circumstances, and for other purposes. The first reading of the

bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined

to the bill and shall not exceed 60 minutes, with 40 minutes

equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking

minority member of the Committee on House Administration

and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the

Judiciary. After general debate the bill shall be considered for

amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in order

to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment
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under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of

a substitute recommended by the Committee on House Administration now printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as

read. All points of order against the committee amendment

in the nature of a substitute are waived. No amendment to

the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall

be in order except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each such

amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the

report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the

report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the

time specified in the 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. All points of order against such amendments are

waived. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for

amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to

the House with such amendments as may have been adopted.

Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on

any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to

the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a

substitute. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage
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without intervening motion except one motion to recommit

with or without instructions.

SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the amendment specified in section 3(a) shall be in

order as though printed as the first amendment in House Report 109–10 if offered by Representative Ney of Ohio or a

designee, and the amendment specified in section 3(b) may

be in order in lieu of the amendment printed in House Report

109–10 and numbered 1.

SEC. 3(a). The first amendment referred to in section 2,

which shall be debatable for ten minutes equally divided and

controlled by the proponent and an opponent, is as follows:

In section 26(b)(2) of the Revised Statutes of the United

States, as proposed to be added by the bill, strike ‘‘45 days’’

and insert ‘‘49 days’’.

(b) The second amendment referred to in section 2 is as

follows:

In section 26(b)(2) of the Revised Statutes of the United

States, as proposed to be added by the bill, strike ‘‘shall take

place’’ and all that follows through ‘‘the vacancy exists,’’ and

insert the following: ‘‘shall take place not later than 60 days
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after the Speaker of the House of Representatives announces

that the vacancy exists,’’.

Attest:

Clerk.