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House Calendar No. 128 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 794 

[Report No. 114–639] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5485) making appropriations 

for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending 

September 30, 2017, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 21, 2016 

Mr. STIVERS, 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 bill (H.R. 5485) making 

appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this reso2 lution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 

3 XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of 

4 the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider5 ation of the bill (H.R. 5485) making appropriations for 

6 financial services and general government for the fiscal 


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1 year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes. 

2 The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All 

3 points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. 

4 General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not 

5 exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair 

6 and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appro7 priations. 

8 SEC. 2. (a) After general debate the bill shall be con9 sidered for amendment under the five-minute rule. The bill 

10 shall be considered as read through page 265, line 9. 

11 Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure 

12 to comply with clause 2 or clause 5(a) of rule XXI are 

13 waived except as follows: beginning with ‘‘: Provided fur14 ther’’ on page 122, line 19, through ‘‘2012’’ on page 122, 

15 line 22. Where points of order are waived against part 

16 of a paragraph, points of order against a provision in an17 other part of such paragraph may be made only against 

18 such provision and not against the entire paragraph. 

19 (b) No amendment to the bill shall be in order except 

20 those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules ac21 companying this resolution, amendments en bloc described 

22 in section 3 of this resolution, and pro forma amendments 

23 described in section 4 of this resolution. 

24 (c) Each amendment printed in the report of the 

25 Committee on Rules shall be considered only in the order 


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1 printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member 

2 designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall 

3 be debatable for the time specified in the report equally 

4 divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 

5 shall not be subject to amendment except as provided by 

6 section 4 of this resolution, and shall not be subject to 

7 a demand for division of the question in the House or in 

8 the Committee of the Whole. 

9 (d) All points of order against amendments printed 

10 in the report of the Committee on Rules or against amend11 ments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution are 

12 waived. 

13 SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 

14 of the Committee on Appropriations or his designee to 

15 offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print16 ed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 

17 this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amendments en 

18 bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be considered 

19 as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided 

20 and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 

21 of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective 

22 designees, shall not be subject to amendment except as 

23 provided by section 4 of this resolution, and shall not be 

24 subject to a demand for division of the question in the 

25 House or in the Committee of the Whole. 


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1 SEC. 4. During consideration of the bill for amend2 ment, the chair and ranking minority member of the Com3 mittee on Appropriations or their respective designees may 

4 offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each at any point 

5 for the purpose of debate. 

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

7 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the 

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

9 adopted. The previous question shall be considered as or10 dered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage 

11 without intervening motion except one motion to recommit 

12 with or without instructions. 

13 SEC. 6. Section 1201 of H.R. 5485 shall be consid14 ered to be a spending reduction account for purposes of 

15 section 3(d) of House Resolution 5. 

16 SEC. 7. During consideration of H.R. 5485, section 

17 3304 of Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 shall not apply. 


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House Calendar No. 128 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 794 

[Report No. 114–639] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5485) 

September 30, 2017, and for other purposes. general government for the fiscal year ending making appropriations for financial services and 

JUNE 21, 2016 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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