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House Calendar No. 17 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 163 

[Report No. 114–49] 

Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 27) 

establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal 

year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 

2017 through 2025. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 23, 2015 

Mr. WOODALL, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. 

Con. Res. 27) establishing the budget for the United 

States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth 

appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 

through 2025. 

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

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

3 rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee 

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1 lishing the budget for the United States Government for 

2 fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary 

3 levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. The first read4 ing of the concurrent resolution shall be dispensed with. 

5 All points of order against consideration of the concurrent 

6 resolution are waived. General debate shall not exceed four 

7 hours, with three hours of general debate confined to the 

8 congressional budget equally divided and controlled by the 

9 chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 

10 the Budget and one hour of general debate on the subject 

11 of economic goals and policies equally divided and con12 trolled by Representative Brady of Texas and Representa13 tive Carolyn Maloney of New York or their respective des14 ignees. After general debate the concurrent resolution 

15 shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute 

16 rule. The concurrent resolution shall be considered as 

17 read. No amendment shall be in order except those printed 

18 in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 

19 this resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only 

20 in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 

21 by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 

22 as read, and shall be debatable for the time specified in 

23 the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent 

24 and an opponent. All points of order against such amend25 ments are waived. If more than one such amendment is 


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1 adopted, then only the one receiving the greater number 

2 of affirmative votes shall be considered as finally adopted. 

3 In the case of a tie for the greater number of affirmative 

4 votes, then only the last amendment to receive that num5 ber of affirmative votes shall be considered as finally 

6 adopted. After the conclusion of consideration of the con7 current resolution for amendment and a final period of 

8 general debate, which shall not exceed 10 minutes equally 

9 divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 

10 member of the Committee on the Budget, the Committee 

11 shall rise and report the concurrent resolution to the 

12 House with such amendment as may have been finally 

13 adopted. The previous question shall be considered as or14 dered on the concurrent resolution and amendments there15 to to adoption without intervening motion except amend16 ments offered by the chair of the Committee on the Budg17 et pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional 

18 Budget Act of 1974 to achieve mathematical consistency. 

19 The concurrent resolution shall not be subject to a demand 

20 for division of the question of its adoption. 


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House Calendar No. 17 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 163 

[Report No. 114–49] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolevels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary for the United States Government for fiscal year lution (H. Con. Res. 27) establishing the budget 

MARCH 23, 2015 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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