[DOCID: f:hc01.txt] UNFINISHED BUSINESS 2008 H.R. 3521 A bill to improve the Operating Fund for public housing of the Department Feb. 26 of Housing and Urban Development. (Pending in the House.) H.R. 2857 A bill to reauthorize and reform the national service laws. (Pending in the March 6 House.) H.R. 5876 A bill to require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent June 24 child abuse and neglect in residential programs, and for other purposes. (Pending in the House.) H.R. 928 A bill to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to enhance the Sept. 25 independence of the Inspectors General, to create a Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________ TABLE OF CONTENTS __________ Section Union Calendar.................................................... 1 House Calendar.................................................... 2 Private Calendar.................................................. 3 Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees....................... 4 Public Laws....................................................... 5 Private Laws...................................................... 6 History of Bills and Resolutions: House Bills............................................... 7 House Joint Resolutions................................... 8 House Concurrent Resolutions.............................. 9 House Resolutions......................................... 10 Senate Bills.............................................. 11 Senate Joint Resolutions.................................. 12 Senate Concurrent Resolutions............................. 13 Senate Resolutions........................................ 14 Reported Bills Referred under Time Limitations.................... 15 Bills in conference............................................... 16 Bills through conference (printed the first legislative day of each week the House is in session)............................ 17 Index of Short Titles (printed the first legislative day of each week the House is in session)................................. 18 Index (printed the first legislative day of each week the House is in session)................................................... 19 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 6: ``6. (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 clause does not apply during the last two weeks of a session of Congress. (f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion that the Speaker be authorized to declare 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 6, 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).