Establishing the Task Force on Ocean Policy.
Latest action. On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Failed by the yeas and naysThe constitutional right of one-fifth of those present to force every member's vote onto the public record. The mechanism behind every roll call you can look up.Read the full definition (opens a new tab): (2/3 required): 103 - 327 (Roll no. 631). (text: continuing resolutionA stopgap law funding the government at existing levels when the annual appropriations bills are not done by October 1.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) H11561-11562)
Establishes a Task Force on Ocean Policy, which may develop recommendations and report to the House of Representatives on the final report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, entitled "An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century."
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on December 14, 2005. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This simple resolution failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on December 14, 2005: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 103 - 327 (Roll no. 631). (text: CR H11561-11562)
What is a simple resolution, exactly?
A simple resolution concerns one chamber only, such as its own rules or an expression of its opinion. The other chamber and the President play no part, and it does not carry the force of law.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
WAYNE GILCHREST (R-MD) introduced it on December 14, 2005, and 2 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 1 Democrat, 1 Republican.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · December 14, 2005
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached