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House Calendar No. 74

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 218

[Report No. 106–196]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2084) making appropriations

for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal

year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 22, 1999

Mr. REYNOLDS, 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. 2084) making

appropriations for the Department of Transportation and

related agencies for the fiscal year ending September

30, 2000, 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. 2084) making appropriations for

6 the Department of Transportation and related agencies
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1 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for

2 other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dis3 pensed with. Points of order against consideration of the

4 bill for failure to comply with clause 4(c) of rule XIII or

5 section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974

6 are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill

7 and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and con8 trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of

9 the Committee on Appropriations. After general debate

10 the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five11 minute rule. Points of order against provisions in the bill

12 for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived

13 except as follows: page 10, line 16, through page 13, line

14 13; ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law,’’ on page

15 13, line 16; ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law,’’

16 on page 15, line 20; ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision

17 of law,’’ on page 17, line 14; ‘‘Notwithstanding any other

18 provision of law,’’ on page 18, line 4; ‘‘Notwithstanding

19 any other provision of law,’’ on page 19, line 5; ‘‘Notwith20 standing any other provision of law,’’ on page 19, line 25;

21 ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law,’’ on page 25,

22 line 9; ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law,’’ on

23 page 32, line 8; page 50, lines 1 through 9; page 50, line

24 22, through page 51, line 12; and page 52, lines 1 through

25 10. Where points of order are waived against part of a
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1 paragraph, points of order against a provision in another

2 part of such paragraph may be made only against such

3 provision and not against the entire paragraph. The

4 amendment printed in the report of the Committee on

5 Rules accompanying this resolution may be offered only

6 by a Member designated in the report and only at the ap7 propriate point in the reading of the bill, shall be consid8 ered as read, and shall not be subject to amendment.

9 Points of order against the amendment printed in the re10 port for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are

11 waived. During consideration of the bill for further amend12 ment, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may

13 accord priority in recognition on the basis of whether the

14 Member offering an amendment has caused it to be print15 ed in the portion of the Congressional Record designated

16 for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. Amendments

17 so printed shall be considered as read. The chairman of

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

19 time during further consideration in the Committee of the

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

21 and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec22 tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an23 other electronic vote without intervening business, pro24 vided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the

25 first in any series of questions shall be 15 minutes. At
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1 the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment

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

3 with such amendments as may have been adopted. The

4 previous question shall be considered as ordered on the

5 bill and amendments thereto to final passage without in6 tervening motion except one motion to recommit with or

7 without instructions.

House Calendar No. 74

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 218

[Report No. 106–196]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2084)

purposes.year ending September 30, 2000, and for otherTransportation and related agencies for the fiscalmaking appropriations for the Department of

JUNE 22, 1999

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed