Jack Kingston: “first, I want to go over a resolution which has raised the eyebrows of a number of our colleagues here that the House…”

“first, I want to go over a resolution which has raised the eyebrows of a number of our colleagues here that the House leadership filed with the Committee on Rules today. It has been described as a resolution which will allow the House to go on vacation or recess until the 23d of January, and I wanted to make the point to my colleagues, because I think there is genuine concern about this, that that is not what the resolution does. It says that the Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call of the Chair on January 5 through Tuesday, January 9; and then the Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call of the Chair from January 9 to January 12, and it goes on from January 12 to January 16, and from the 16th through the 19th, but it does not call for a recess. It gives the Speaker the power to make the call on that, and I wanted to assure my colleagues----”