Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a reading of the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in the previous month as a result of combat.

This resolution requires (on the first legislative day of each month) a reading of the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in the previous month as a result of combat.

In addition, this resolution prohibits the Speaker of the House from reading the name of any such member if any family member informs the Speaker that he or she does not wish to have the name of that individual read.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1065 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1065

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a reading 
 of the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in the previous 
                      month as a result of combat.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2020

   Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Walorski, Ms. 
    Norton, Mr. Pascrell, and Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York) 
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 a reading 
 of the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in the previous 
                      month as a result of combat.

    Resolved, That--
     (a) Clause 1 of rule XIV of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding after the third item the following 
new item:
            ``Fourth. On the first legislative day of each month, a 
        reading of the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in 
        the previous month as a result of combat.''.
    (b) Clause 1 of rule XIV is amended by redesignating the fourth 
through the ninth items as the fifth through the tenth items.
    (c) Rule XIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by adding at the end the following new clause:
    ``7. The Speaker shall not read the name of any member of the Armed 
Forces under clause 1 if any family member informs the Speaker that the 
family member does not wish to have the name of that individual 
read.''.
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