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113TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 113–239 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO THE 

JOINT RESOLUTION (H.J. RES. 59) MAKING CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND 

WAIVING A REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 6(a) OF RULE XIII WITH RESPECT 

TO CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS REPORTED FROM THE 

COMMITTEE ON RULES 

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. SESSIONS, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 367] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 367, by a record vote of 9 to 4, report the same to the 

House with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for the consideration of the Senate 

amendment to H.J. Res. 59, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014. The resolution makes in order a motion offered by the 

chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee that the 

House recede from its amendments and concur in the Senate 

amendment with the amendment printed in this report. The resolution provides 40 minutes of debate on the motion equally divided 

and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 

Committee on Appropriations. The resolution provides that the 

Senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. 

The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 

the motion. 

Section 2 of the resolution waives clause 6(a) of rule XIII (requiring a two-thirds vote to consider a rule on the same day it is reported from the Rules Committee) against any resolution reported 

from the Rules Committee through the legislative day of October 

7, 2013. 

EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

Although the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the motion, the Committee is not aware of any points of 

order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature. 


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COMMITTEE VOTES

The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion to 

report, together with the names of those voting for and against, are 

printed below: 

Rules Committee record vote No. 76 

Motion by Ms. Foxx to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ Yea Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Nay 

Mr. Bishop of Utah .......................................... Yea Mr. McGovern ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Yea Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Nay 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Yea Mr. Polis ........................................................... Nay 

Mr. Nugent ....................................................... Yea 

Mr. Webster ...................................................... Yea 

Ms. Ros-Lehtinen ............................................. Yea 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Yea 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Yea 

SUMMARY OF THE HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT

TO H.J. RES. 59

Provides a one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act individual 

mandate; requires Members of Congress, congressional staff, and 

political appointees (including White House staff) to enroll in the 

Obamacare exchanges without an employer subsidy for coverage; 

amends the expiration date of the CR to be December 15, 2013; 

makes a technical change to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission 

provision; adds a new provision to extend the authority for the U.S. 

to issue Special Immigrant Visas. 

TEXT OF THE HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO

H.J. RES. 59

In the matter proposed to be added by the Senate amendment, 

insert at the end (before the short title) the following: 

SEC. 138. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, the date referred to in section 106(3) shall be December 15, 

2013. 

SEC. 139. For the period covered by this joint resolution, the authority provided by the provisos under the heading ‘‘Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission—Capital Construction’’ in division 

E of Public Law 112–74 shall not be in effect. 

SEC. 140. Section 1244(c)(3) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1157 note) is amended by 

adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(C) FISCAL YEAR 2014.— 

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in clauses (ii) 

and (iii), the total number of principal aliens who may 

be provided special immigrant status under this section in fiscal year 2014 during the period ending on 

December 15, 2013 shall be the sum of— 

‘‘(I) the number of aliens described in subsection 

(b) whose application for special immigrant status 

under this section is pending on September 30, 

2013; and 

‘‘(II) 2,000. 

‘‘(ii) EMPLOYMENT PERIOD.—The 1-year period during which the principal alien is required to have been 


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employed by or on behalf of the United States Government in Iraq under subsection (b)(1)(B) shall begin on 

or after March 20, 2003, and end on or before September 30, 2013. 

‘‘(iii) APPLICATION DEADLINE.—The principal alien 

seeking special immigrant status under this subparagraph shall apply to the Chief of Mission in accordance with subsection (b)(4) not later than December 

15, 2013.’’. 

SEC. 141. (a) DELAY IN APPLICATION OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH IN- SURANCE MANDATE.—Section 5000A(a) of the Internal Revenue 

Code of 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘2013’’ and inserting ‘‘2014’’. 

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Section 5000A(c)(2)(B) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 

(A) by striking ‘‘2014’’ in clause (i) and inserting ‘‘2015’’, and 

(B) by striking ‘‘2015’’ in clauses (ii) and (iii) and inserting 

‘‘2016’’. 

(2) Section 5000A(c)(3)(B) of such Code is amended— 

(A) by striking ‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2015’’, and 

(B) by striking ‘‘2015’’ (prior to amendment by subparagraph 

(A)) and inserting ‘‘2016’’. 

(3) Section 5000A(c)(3)(D) of such Code is amended— 

(A) by striking ‘‘2016’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’, and 

(B) by striking ‘‘2015’’ and inserting ‘‘2016’’. 

(4) Section 5000A(e)(1)(D) of such Code is amended— 

(A) by striking ‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2015’’, and 

(B) by striking ‘‘2013’’ and inserting ‘‘2014’’. 

(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section 

shall take effect as if included in section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

SEC. 142. Section 1312(d)(3)(D) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(d)(3)(D)) is amended— 

(1) by striking the subparagraph heading and inserting the 

following: 

‘‘(D) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, CONGRESSIONAL STAFF, THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, AND POLITICAL AP- POINTEES.—’’; 

(2) in clause (i), in the matter preceding subclause (I)— 

(A) by striking ‘‘and congressional staff’’ and inserting ‘‘, 

congressional staff, the President, the Vice President, and 

political appointees’’; and 

(B) by striking ‘‘or congressional staff’’ and inserting ‘‘, 

congressional staff, the President, the Vice President, or a 

political appointee’’; 

(3) in clause (ii)— 

(A) in subclause (I), by inserting before the period at the 

end the following: ‘‘, and includes a Delegate or Resident 

Commissioner to the Congress’’; 

(B) in subclause (II), by inserting after ‘‘Congress,’’ the 

following: ‘‘of a standing, select, or joint committee of Congress (or a subcommittee thereof), of an office of the House 

of Representatives for which the appropriation for salaries 

and expenses of the office for the year involved is provided 

under the heading ‘House Leadership Offices’ in the act 

making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the 


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fiscal year involved, or a leadership office of the Senate 

(consisting of the offices of the President pro Tempore, Majority and Minority Leaders, Majority and Minority Whips, 

Conferences of the Majority and of the Minority, and Majority and Minority Policy Committees of the Senate),’’; 

and 

(C) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(III) POLITICAL APPOINTEE.—The term ‘political 

appointee’ means an individual who— 

‘‘(aa) is employed in a position described 

under sections 5312 through 5316 of title 5, 

United States Code (relating to the Executive 

Schedule); 

‘‘(bb) is a limited term appointee, limited 

emergency appointee, or noncareer appointee 

in the Senior Executive Service, as defined 

under paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively, of section 3132(a) of title 5, United 

States Code; 

‘‘(cc) is employed in a position in the executive branch of the Government of a confidential or policy-determining character under 

schedule C of subpart D of part 213 of title 5 

of the Code of Federal Regulations; or 

‘‘(dd) is employed in or under the Executive 

Office of the President in a position that is excluded from the competitive service by reason 

of its confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating character.’’; and 

(4) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(iii) GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION.—No Government 

contribution under section 8906 of title 5, United 

States Code, shall be provided on behalf of an individual who is a Member of Congress, congressional 

staff, the President, the Vice President, or a political 

appointee for coverage under this subparagraph. 

‘‘(iv) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF TAX CREDIT OR COSTSHARING.—An individual enrolling in health insurance 

coverage pursuant to this paragraph shall not be eligible to receive a tax credit under section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or reduced cost sharing 

under section 1402 of this Act in an amount that exceeds the total amount which a similarly situated individual (who is not so enrolled) would be entitled to receive under such sections. 

‘‘(v) LIMITATION ON DISCRETION FOR DESIGNATION OF

STAFF.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 

Member of Congress shall not have discretion in determinations with respect to which employees employed 

by the office of such Member are eligible to enroll for 

coverage through an Exchange.’’. 

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