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[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1995]
[Wednesday, August 2, 1995 (107), Para 107.24 Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1555]
[Page 1245]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

para.107.24  providing for the consideration of h.r. 1555

  Mr. LINDER, by direction of the Committee on Rules, called up the 
following resolution (H. Res. 207):

       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. 1555) to promote competition and reduce 
     regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality 
     services for American telecommunications consumers and 
     encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications 
     technologies. The first reading of the bill shall be 
     dispensed with. Points of order against consideration of the 
     bill for failure to comply with section 302(f) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 are waived. General debate 
     shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed ninety 
     minutes equally divided among and controlled by the chairmen 
     and ranking minority members of the Committee on Commerce and 
     the Committee on the Judiciary. After general debate the bill 
     shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. 
     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 
     Commerce now printed in the bill. The committee amendment in 
     the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 
     Points of order against the committee amendment in the nature 
     of a substitute for failure to comply with clause 5(a) of 
     rule XXI and section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act 
     of 1974 are waived. Before consideration of any other 
     amendment it shall be in order to consider the amendment 
     printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution. That amendment may be offered 
     only by a Member designated in the report, shall be 
     considered as read, shall be debatable for thirty minutes 
     equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
     opponent, 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. If that amendment is 
     adopted, the provisions of the bill, as amended, shall be 
     considered as the original bill for the purpose of further 
     amendment under the five-minute rule. No further amendment 
     shall be in order except those printed in part 2 of the 
     report of the Committee on Rules. Each amendment printed in 
     part 2 of the report may 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, shall 
     be debatable for the time specified in the report equally 
     divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 
     shall not be subject to amendment except as specified in the 
     report, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of 
     the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
     All points of order against amendments printed in the report 
     of the Committee on Rules are waived. 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. 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. 
     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. The previous 
     question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and 
     amendments thereto to final passage without intervening 
     motion except one motion to recommit with or without 
     instructions.
       Sec. 2. After passage of H.R. 1555, it shall be in order to 
     take from the Speaker's table the bill S. 652 and to consider 
     the Senate bill in the House. All points of order against the 
     Senate bill and against its consideration are waived. It 
     shall be in order to move to strike all after the enacting 
     clause of the Senate bill and to insert in lieu thereof the 
     provisions of H.R. 1555 as passed by the House. All points of 
     order against that motion are waived. If the motion is 
     adopted and the Senate bill, as amended, is passed, then it 
     shall be in order to move that the House insist on its 
     amendments to S. 652 and request a conference with the Senate 
     thereon.

  When said resolution was considered.
  After debate,
  On motion of Mr. LINDER, the previous question was ordered on the 
resolution to its adoption or rejection.
  The question being put, viva voce,
  Will the House agree to said resolution?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. EMERSON, announced that the yeas had it.
  Mr. BEILENSON demanded a recorded vote on agreeing to said resolution, 
which demand was supported by one-fifth of a quorum, so a recorded vote 
was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device.

It was decided in the

Yeas

255

affirmative

Nays

156
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