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[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1995]
[Tuesday, June 13, 1995 (78), Para 78.8 Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1530]
[Pages 889-890]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

para.78.8  providing for the consideration of h.r. 1530

  Mr. SOLOMON, by direction of the Committee on Rules, called up the 
following resolution (H. Res. 164):

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule 
     XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 1530) to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 1996 for military activities of the Department of 
     Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal 
     year 1996, and for other purposes. The first reading of the 
     bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against 
     consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be 
     confined to the bill and the amendments made in order by this 
     resolution and shall not exceed two hours equally divided and 
     controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
     Committee on National Security. After general debate the bill 
     shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.
       Sec. 2. (a) 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 National Security now printed in the bill. 
     The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as 
     modified by striking section 807, and by an amendment printed 
     in part 3 of the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as read. 
     All points of order against the committee amendment in the 
     nature of a substitute are waived.
       (b) No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature 
     of a substitute, as modified, shall be in order except the 
     amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution, amendments en bloc described in 
     section 3 of this resolution, and the amendments described in 
     section 4 of this resolution.
       (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution, 
     each amendment printed in the report shall be considered only 
     in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a 
     Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 
     and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
     question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
     Unless otherwise specified in the report, each amendment 
     printed in the report shall be debatable for ten minutes 
     equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
     opponent and shall not be subject to amendment (except that 
     the chairman or ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     National Security each may offer one pro forma amendment for 
     the purpose of further debate on any pending amendment).
       (d) All points of order against amendments printed in the 
     report, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this 
     resolution, and amendments described in section 4 of this 
     resolution, are waived.
       (e)(1) Consideration of amendments printed in subpart A of 
     part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution shall begin with an additional period of 
     general debate, which shall be confined to the subject of 
     cooperative threat reduction with the states of the former 
     Soviet Union and shall not exceed thirty minutes equally 
     divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on National Security.
       (2) Consideration of amendments printed in subpart D of 
     part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution shall begin with an additional period of 
     general debate, which shall be confined to the subject of 
     ballistic missile defense and shall not exceed sixty minutes 
     equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on National Security.
       Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman 
     of the Committee on National Security or his designee to 
     offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in 
     part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution not earlier disposed of or germane 
     modifications of any such amendment. Amendments en bloc 
     offered pursuant to this section shall be considered as read 
     (except that modifications shall be reported), shall be 
     debatable for twenty minutes equally divided and controlled 
     by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
     on National Security or their designees, shall not be subject 
     to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
     division of the question in the House or in the Committee of 
     the Whole. For the purpose of inclusion in such amendments en 
     bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike 
     may be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amendment 
     to the text originally proposed to be stricken. The original 
     proponent of an amendment included in such amendments en bloc 
     may insert a statement in the Congressional Record 
     immediately before the disposition of the amendments en bloc.
       Sec. 4. (a) It shall be in order for Representative Clinger 
     of Pennsylvania, with the concurrence of Representatives 
     Collins of Illinois, to offer the amendment numbered 1 in 
     subpart C of part 1 of the report of the

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     Committee on Rules in a modified form that is germane to the 
     form printed in the report.
       (b) After disposition of all other amendments, it shall be 
     in order at any time for the chairman of the Committee on 
     National Security or his designee to offer an amendment not 
     printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution to reconcile spending levels reflected in the 
     bill with the corresponding level reflected in a conference 
     report to accompany a concurrent resolution on the budget for 
     fiscal year 1996. The amendment shall be considered as read, 
     shall be debatable for ten minutes equally divided and 
     controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
     Committee on National Security or their designees, shall not 
     be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
     for division of the question in the House or in the Committee 
     of the Whole.
       Sec. 5. (a) The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may 
     postpone until a time during further consideration in the 
     Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any 
     amendment made in order by this resolution.
       (b) The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce 
     to not less than five minutes the time for voting by 
     electronic device on any postponed question that immediately 
     follows another vote by electronic device without intervening 
     business, provided that the time for voting by electronic 
     device on the first in any series of questions shall be not 
     less than fifteen minutes.
       (c) The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may 
     recognize for consideration of any amendment made in order by 
     this resolution out of the order printed but not sooner than 
     one hour after the chairman of the Committee on National 
     Security or a designee announces from the floor a request to 
     that effect.
       Sec. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for 
     amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the 
     House with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any 
     Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any 
     amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill 
     or to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, 
     as modified. The previous question shall be considered as 
     ordered on the bill and amendments there to final passage 
     without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with 
     or without instructions.

  When said resolution was considered.
  After debate,
  Mr. SOLOMON submitted the following amendment:

       Page 3, line 23, strike ``A'' and insert in lieu thereof 
     ``B''.

  Mr. SOLOMON moved the previous question on the amendment and the 
resolution.
  The question being put, viva voce,
  Will the House now order the previous question on the amendment and 
the resolution?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. WICKER, announced that the yeas had it.
  Mr. MOAKLEY objected to the vote on the ground that a quorum was not 
present and not voting.
  A quorum not being present,
  The roll was called under clause 4, rule XV, and the call was taken by 
electronic device.

Yeas

225

When there appeared

Nays

191
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