To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for appointment of United States marshals by the Director of the United States Marshals Service.
United States Marshals Service Improvement Act of 1996 - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the appointment of U.S. marshals for each judicial district of the United States and for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Attorney General of the United States (currently, by the President) subject to Federal law governing appointments in the competitive civil service.
Sets forth transitional provisions. Requires the President to appoint a marshal, for a four-year term, to fill the first vacancy which occurs in the office of U.S. marshal in any district between the date of enactment of this Act and December 31, 1999.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 104-541.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 104-541.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 264.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 418 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2641 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. Measure will be considered read. Bill is open to amendments. After passage of H.R. 2641 it shall be in order to consider the bill S. 1338. It shall be in order to strike and insert the provisions of H.R. 2641 as passed by the House, insist on the House amendments to S. 1338 and ask for a conference.
Rule H. Res. 418 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 418. (consideration: CR H4323-4329)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2641 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. Measure will be considered read. Bill is open to amendments. After passage of H.R. 2641 it shall be in order to consider the bill S. 1338. It shall be in order to strike and insert the provisions of H.R. 2641 as passed by the House, insist on the House amendments to S. 1338 and ask for a conference.
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House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 418 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Roger F. Wicker to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2641.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 351 - 72 (Roll no. 141).
Roll Call #141 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 351 - 72 (Roll no. 141).
Roll Call #141 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.