Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun violence.

Declares that, whenever a moment of silence related to a tragedy involving gun violence occurs on the floor of the House, the Speaker shall announce on the next legislative day the standing committee (or subcommittee) designated to hold a hearing on the event.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 694 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 694

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a 
 standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever 
 there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun 
                               violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 2016

 Mr. Cardenas (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Aguilar, Ms. Bass, Mrs. 
 Beatty, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Bera, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brownley of California, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. 
 Butterfield, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. 
       Castro of Texas, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Clark of 
 Massachusetts, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Connolly, Mr. 
  Costa, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Danny K. Davis of 
 Illinois, Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. DeGette, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. 
Deutch, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Esty, Mr. 
 Farr, Mr. Fattah, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Ms. Fudge, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. 
   Gallego, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Grayson, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. 
    Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Hahn, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Himes, Mr. 
Hinojosa, Mr. Honda, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Israel, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Ted 
 Lieu of California, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Kennedy, 
 Ms. Kuster, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Lee, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis, 
Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
 McDermott, Mr. McNerney, Ms. Meng, Mr. Moulton, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. 
   Neal, Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Peters, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. 
Pocan, Mr. Polis, Mr. Quigley, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Richmond, Ms. 
Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, 
  Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. 
   David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sires, Ms. 
    Slaughter, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Speier, Mr. Swalwell of 
 California, Mr. Takano, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
Veasey, Mr. Visclosky, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. 
Adams, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, 
Mr. Meeks, Ms. Titus, Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, and Ms. Lofgren) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                                on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a 
 standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever 
 there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun 
                               violence.

    Resolved, That rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:
``Hearings related to moments of silence
    ``7. Whenever a moment of silence related to a tragedy in the 
United States or its territories involving gun violence occurs on the 
floor of the House, the Speaker shall announce on the next legislative 
day the standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) designated to hold 
a hearing on such event. Such hearing shall occur within ten 
legislative days of the day of the moment of silence. If the chair of 
the designated committee or subcommittee does not call the requested 
hearing within three calendar days of the Speaker's announcement, a 
majority of the members of the committee or subcommittee may file in 
the offices of the committee or subcommittee their written notice that 
a hearing of the committee or subcommittee will be held. The written 
notice shall specify the date and hour of the hearing. The committee or 
subcommittee shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the 
filing of the notice, the clerk of the committee or subcommittee shall 
notify all members of the committee or subcommittee that such hearing 
will be held and inform them of its date and hour. Such notice shall 
also be made publicly available in electronic form and shall be deemed 
to satisfy paragraph (g)(3)(A)(i) of clause 2 of this rule. Only the 
event that was the subject of the moment of silence may be considered 
at that hearing.''.
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