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Parliamentary Inquiries

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 5, 2020
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader asserted in his comments that the document in question was the property of the House.

Was, in fact, the document that the Speaker had to read the property of the House?

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, an additional question.

Mr. Speaker, after the President had spoken the State of the Union and delivered that to the Congress of the United States, at the end of that session, I moved that that document be enrolled in the House proceedings of last evening.

Am I to understand from the ruling that that document was specifically the document that would have been enrolled?

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Mr. HOYER. Yes.

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Mr. HOYER. That document did not exist according to the assertion of the Republican leader. It was destroyed.

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I don't think that answered my question.

My question was: Was the document that was destroyed or torn apart, the document that was to be enrolled by the House pursuant to my motion?

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the resolution is not on the floor, I don't think.

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, further parliamentary inquiry.

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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask for clarification. Obviously, the Parliamentarian--I think we ought to clarify this issue.

If the document has been torn apart as is alleged, and as we know it was, that document, presumably, is not the document that was enrolled by the House pursuant to my motion last night.

I know it is not in the possession of the House. I know that for a fact. But there is, pursuant to my motion, a document that has been enrolled, the President's address in the State of the Union.

So I simply want to make the point to the Parliamentarian and to the Speaker, that the document that--I have been here for a long period of time. Numerous times, numerous times, I have had in this drawer a copy of the President's speech that is delivered by the communication staff of the White House.

Mr. Speaker, is that to be presumed----

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