House Calendar No. 88

103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 254

[Report No. 103–252]

RESOLUTION

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R.

for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths1994 for military activities of the Department of2401) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year

SEPTEMBER 22, 1993

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed
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House Calendar No. 88

103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 254

[Report No. 103–252]

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize

appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal

year 1994, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 22, 1993

Mr. FROST, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;

which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

RESOLUTION

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401)

to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe

military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1994, and

for other purposes.

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

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of

3 rule XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee

4 of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further

5 consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize appro-
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1 priations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the

2 Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel

3 strengths for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes. No

4 further amendment to the committee amendment in the

5 nature of a substitute shall be in order except the amend6 ments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules

7 accompanying this resolution and amendments en bloc de8 scribed in section 3 of this resolution. Pro forma amend9 ments for the purpose of debate may be offered only by

10 the chairman or ranking minority member of the Commit11 tee on Armed Services. Except as specified in sections 2

12 through 4 of this resolution, each amendment may be of13 fered only in the order printed in the report, may be of14 fered only by a Member designated in the report, shall

15 be considered as read, shall not be subject to amendment

16 except as specified in the report, and shall not be subject

17 to a demand for division of the question in the House or

18 in the Committee of the Whole. Except as otherwise speci19 fied in the report, each amendment printed in the report

20 shall be debatable for ten minutes equally divided and con21 trolled by the proponent and an opponent. All points of

22 order against amendments printed in the report are

23 waived.

24 SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time to consider

25 the amendments printed in part 1 of the report of the
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1 Committee on Rules in the order printed. Such consider2 ation shall begin with an additional period of general de3 bate, which shall be confined to section 575 of the commit4 tee amendment in the nature of a substitute and the

5 amendments printed in part 1 of the report and shall not

6 exceed one hour equally divided and controlled among the

7 chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, the rank8 ing minority member of the Committee on Armed Services,

9 and Representative Skelton of Missouri. If more than one

10 of the amendments printed in part 1 of the report is

11 adopted, only the last to be adopted shall be considered

12 as finally adopted and reported to the House.

13 SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair14 man of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee

15 to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments

16 printed in part 4 of the report of the Committee on Rules

17 accompanying this resolution or in House Report 103–236

18 or germane modifications thereof. Amendments en bloc

19 shall be considered as read except that modifications shall

20 be reported. Amendments en bloc shall be debatable for

21 twenty minutes equally divided and controlled by the

22 chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee

23 on Armed Services, shall not be subject to amendment,

24 and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the

25 question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.
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1 For the purpose of inclusion in amendments en bloc, an

2 amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike may

3 be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amend4 ment to the text originally proposed to be stricken. All

5 points of order against amendments en bloc are waived.

6 The original proponent of an amendment included in

7 amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Con8 gressional Record immediately before the disposition of

9 the amendments en bloc.

10 SEC. 4. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole

11 may postpone until a time during further consideration

12 in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded

13 vote on any amendment made in order by this resolution.

14 The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce

15 to not less than five minutes the time for voting by elec16 tronic device on any postponed question that immediately

17 follows another vote by electronic device without interven18 ing business, provided that the time for voting by elec19 tronic device on the first in any series of questions shall

20 be not less than fifteen minutes. The chairman of the

21 Committee of the Whole may recognize for consideration

22 of an amendment printed in parts 2 through 4 of the re23 port of the Committee on Rules out of the order printed,

24 but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the
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1 Committee on Armed Services announces from the floor

2 a request to that effect.

3 SEC. 5. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill

4 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the

5 bill to the House with such amendments as may have been

6 finally adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote

7 in the House on any amendment adopted in the Commit8 tee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amend9 ment in the nature of a substitute. The previous question

10 shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments

11 thereto to final passage without intervening motion except

12 one motion to recommit with or without instructions.