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House Calendar No. 51

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 158

[Report No. 106–126]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 833) to amend title 11 of

the United States Code, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 4, 1999

Mr. SESSIONS, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 833) to amend

title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.

1 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of

3 rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee

4 of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider5 ation of the bill (H.R. 833) to amend title 11 of the United

6 States Code, and for other purposes. The first reading of

7 the bill shall be dispensed with. Points of order against

8 consideration of the bill for failure to comply with section
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1 302 or section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of

2 1974 are waived. General debate shall be confined to the

3 bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and con4 trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of

5 the Committee on the Judiciary. After general debate the

6 bill shall be considered for amendment under the five7 minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as an original

8 bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute

9 rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute rec10 ommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed

11 in the bill. The committee amendment in the nature of

12 a substitute shall be considered as read. All points of order

13 against the committee amendment in the nature of a sub14 stitute are waived. No amendment to the committee

15 amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order

16 except those printed in the report of the Committee on

17 Rules accompanying this resolution. Each amendment

18 may be offered only in the order printed in the report,

19 may be offered only by a Member designated in the report,

20 shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time

21 specified in the report equally divided and controlled by

22 the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to

23 amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for divi24 sion of the question in the House or in the Committee

25 of the Whole. All points of order against the amendments
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1 printed in the report are waived. The chairman of the

2 Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a time

3 during further consideration in the Committee of the

4 Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment;

5 and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec6 tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an7 other electronic vote without intervening business, pro8 vided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the

9 first in any series of questions shall be 15 minutes. At

10 the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment

11 the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House

12 with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any

13 Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any

14 amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the

15 bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a

16 substitute. The previous question shall be considered as

17 ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final pas18 sage without intervening motion except one motion to re19 commit with or without instructions.
House Calendar No. 51

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 158

[Report No. 106–126]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 833)

for other purposes.to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and

MAY 4, 1999

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed