House Calendar No. 148

103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. RES. 401

[Report No. 103–474]

RESOLUTION

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 4092) to control and prevent crime.

APRIL 12, 1994

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed
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House Calendar No. 148

103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. RES. 401

[Report No. 103–474]

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 4092) to control and

prevent crime.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APRIL 12, 1994

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

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

RESOLUTION

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. 4092) to control and pre6 vent crime. No further general debate shall be in order.

7 The bill shall be considered for amendment under the five8 minute rule and shall be considered as read. Except as

9 provided in section 2 of this resolution, no amendment

10 shall be in order except those printed in the report of the
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1 Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each

2 amendment printed in the report may be offered only in

3 the order printed, may be offered only by a Member des4 ignated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall

5 be debatable for the time specified in the report equally

6 divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent,

7 shall not be subject to amendment except as specified in

8 the report, and shall not be subject to a demand for divi9 sion of the question in the House or in the Committee

10 of the Whole. All points of order against the amendments

11 printed in the report are waived. If more than one of the

12 following amendments printed in part 1 of the report re13 lating to habeas corpus is adopted, only the last to be

14 adopted shall be considered as finally adopted and re15 ported to the House: by Representative Hyde of Illinois;

16 and by Representative Derrick of South Carolina.

17 SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chair18 man of the Committee on the Judiciary or his designee

19 to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments

20 printed in part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules

21 or germane modifications of any such amendment.

22 Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall

23 be considered as read (except that modifications shall be

24 reported), shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally di25 vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor-
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1 ity member of the Committee on the Judiciary, shall not

2 be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a

3 demand for division of the question in the House or in

4 the Committee of the Whole. For the purpose of inclusion

5 in such amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in

6 the form of a motion to strike may be modified to the

7 form of a germane perfecting amendment to the text origi8 nally proposed to be stricken. All points of order against

9 such amendments en bloc are waived. The original pro10 ponent of an amendment included in such amendments en

11 bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record

12 immediately before the disposition of the amendments en

13 bloc.

14 SEC. 3. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole

15 may postpone until a time during further consideration

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

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

18 The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce

19 to not less than five minutes the time for voting by elec20 tronic device on any postponed question that immediately

21 follows another vote by electronic device without interven22 ing business, provided that the time for voting by elec23 tronic device on the first in any series of questions shall

24 be not less than 15 minutes.
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1 SEC. 4. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill

2 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the

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

4 finally adopted. The previous question shall be considered

5 as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final

6 passage without intervening motion except one motion to

7 recommit.

8 SEC. 5. After passage of H.R. 4092, it shall be in

9 order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill H.R. 3355,

10 with a Senate amendment thereto, and to consider the

11 Senate amendment in the House. It shall be in order to

12 move to concur in the Senate amendment with an amend13 ment inserting the text of H.R. 4092 as passed by the

14 House in lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by

15 the Senate. All points of order against that motion are

16 waived. If the motion is adopted, then it shall be in order

17 to move that the House insist on its amendments to the

18 Senate amendment to H.R. 3355 and request a conference

19 with the Senate thereon.