Kevin Brady: “I offer a resolution constituting a question of the privileges of the House. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will…”

“I offer a resolution constituting a question of the privileges of the House. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: H. Res. 1019 Resolved, That the conference report accompanying H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, in the opinion of this House, contravenes the first clause of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States and is an infringement of the privileges of this House and that such bill be respectfully recommitted to the committee of conference. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution presents a question of the privileges of the House. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ____________________”