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On the recordMarch 22, 2017
I hope that the Chair will rule favorably on behalf of the American people. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado seeks to offer a resolution as a question of the privileges of the House under rule IX. As the Chair ruled on February 27, 2017; March 7, 2017; and March 15, 2017, the resolution directs the Committee on Ways and Means to meet and consider an item of business under the procedures set forth in 26 U.S.C. 6103 and, therefore, does not qualify as a question of the privileges of the House.
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Jared Polis
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