§ 17. Same; limit of debate in each House

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1948

   The President

   Pub. L. 80–644 · 62 Stat. 672

   Enacted · 3 U.S.C. § 17

   June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676

2. 2022

   Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2023

   Pub. L. 117–328 div. P title I § 110(a) · 136 Stat. 4459

   Amended · 3 U.S.C. § 17

   Pub. L. 117–328 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “When the two Houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or other question arising in the matter, each Senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes, and not more than once; but after such debate shall have lasted two hours it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of each House to put the main question without further debate.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 117–328 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “When the two Houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or other question arising in the matter, each Senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes, and not more than once; but after such debate shall have lasted two hours it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of each House to put the main question without further debate.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any prior appropriations Act that remain available for obligation, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the Department of Commerce, including amounts provided for programs of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agreements with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, to aid and promote statistical, research, and methodology activities which further the purposes for which such amounts have been made available.

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