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On the recordNovember 20, 2020
I send to the desk a resolution and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Trone). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Maryland? There was no objection. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1233 Resolved, That a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress be printed as a House document, and that three thousand additional copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the House of Representatives, of which nine hundred eighty copies shall be bound in leather with thumb index and delivered as may be directed by the Parliamentarian of the House. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ____________________
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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