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You have been exploring the powers of Congress this week. Your Representative, Mary Jo Kilroy has been working on the following:

H.RES.1047
Title: Commending The Ohio State University Buckeyes football team for its victory in the 2010 Rose Bowl.
Sponsor: Rep Kilroy, Mary Jo [OH-15] (introduced 1/27/2010) Cosponsors (26)

ALL ACTIONS:

1/27/2010:

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

2/23/2010:

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

Mr. Pierluisi moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1203-1205)

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 1047.

3/9/2010 4:53pm:

At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Pierluisi objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.

There was a 40 minute debate about this resolution. You can link to the debate below:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r111:3:./temp/~r111YZKSrk::

Is this an expressed, or an implied power of Congress? Should Congress be spending time on this type of work?