John Conyers: “in accordance with my request of last Thursday, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 253) as to a question of the…”

“in accordance with my request of last Thursday, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 253) as to a question of the privileges of the House and ask for its immediate consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 253 Whereas the Committee on the Judiciary conducted a markup of the bill H.R. 748, the ``Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act,'' on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 and ordered the bill reported on that same day; Whereas the Committee on the Judiciary subsequently reported H.R. 748 to the House on Thursday, April 21, 2005, with an accompanying report designated House Report 109-51; Whereas, during the markup of H.R. 748, Representatives Nadler, Scott, and Jackson- Lee offered in good faith a total of five amendments to the bill, all of which failed on party-line votes; Whereas, because Representatives Nadler, Scott, and Jackson-Lee called for recorded votes on their amendments, under section 3(b) of Rule XIII, the votes were published in House Report 109-51; Whereas, although it is the long and established practice in House reports to describe recorded votes with objective, nonargumentative captions, the Committee on the Judiciary majority departed from this practice in House Report 109-51 by captioning these five amendments with inflammatory, inaccurate captions implying that these three Members of Congress condoned the criminal behavior of ``sexual predators''; Whereas,…”