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Authorizing the Speaker to appoint a committee to notify the President of the assembly of the Congress.

Introduced Jan 3, 2025

Latest action (Jan 3, 2025) Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Policy area
Congress
Legislative subjects (2)
Congressional operations and organizationPresidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary

This resolution authorizes the Speaker of the House to appoint a committee of two House members to join a corresponding Senate committee. The joint committee's purpose is to formally notify the President that both chambers of Congress have assembled with a quorum present and are ready to receive any communication from him. This is a standard procedural measure taken at the beginning of each congressional session.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Steve Scalise’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • VALERO $48,300
  • NULL $30,277
  • CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $29,500
  • OCHSNER HEALTH $26,900
  • S-3 GROUP $25,000

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Steve Scalise → · Outside spending →

Actions (5)
  1. Jan 3, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  2. Jan 3, 2025 On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H8) · house
  3. Jan 3, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection. (text: CR H8)
  4. Jan 3, 2025 Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H8) · house
  5. Jan 3, 2025 Submitted in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HCONRES 74 — Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the President. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HCONRES 11 — Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the President. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HRES 43 — Providing for the attendance of the House at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 222 — Sustainable Budget Act of 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • SCONRES 1 — A concurrent resolution extending the life of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. (shares 2 subjects)
  • SRES 1 — A resolution establishing a Committee to Inform the President of the United States that a quorum of each House is assembled. (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 164 — Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025 (shares 1 subject)
  • SRES 608 — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Ghislaine Maxwell should not be granted a Presidential pardon or any form of clemency for her crimes with Jeffrey Epstein relating to the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors. (shares 1 subject)

Text versions (1)
  • Engrossed in House · Jan 3, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

January 3, 2025.

Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the President of the United States that a quorum of each House has assembled and Congress is ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make. Attest:

Clerk.

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