06/23/08 7:05 PM
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 353 - 0 (Roll no. 439).
06/23/08 6:57 PM
Considered as unfinished business.
06/23/08 6:57 PM
H. Res. 1242:
honoring the life, musical accomplishments, and contributions of Louis Jordan on the 100th anniversary of his birth
06/23/08 6:56 PM
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 348 - 0 (Roll no. 438).
06/23/08 6:32 PM
Considered as unfinished business.
06/23/08 6:30 PM
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of motions to suspend the rules which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
06/23/08 6:28 PM
Commission on the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - the Speaker appointed Mr. Donald Payne, Newark, New Jersey; Mr. Howard Dodson, New York, New York; and Ms. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Cambridge, Massachusetts. .
06/23/08 6:28 PM
H. Con. Res. 2:
expressing the sense of the Congress that schools in the United States should honor the contributions of individuals from the territories of the United States by including such contributions in the teaching of United States history
06/23/08 6:26 PM
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
06/23/08 6:01 PM
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 2.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
Mr. Sarbanes moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
