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House Calendar No. 98 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 685 

[Report No. 111–233] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3326) making appropriations 

for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 

30, 2010, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 28, 2009 

Ms. PINGREE of Maine, 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. 3326) making 

appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other 

purposes. 

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 

4 of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider5 ation of the bill (H.R. 3326) making appropriations for 


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1 the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sep2 tember 30, 2010, and for other purposes. The first read3 ing of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order 

4 against consideration of the bill are waived except those 

5 arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. General debate 

6 shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour 

7 equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 

8 minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. 

9 After general debate the bill shall be considered for 

10 amendment under the five-minute rule. The bill shall be 

11 considered as read through page 147, line 4. Points of 

12 order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply 

13 with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived. Notwithstanding 

14 clause 11 of rule XVIII, except as provided in section 2, 

15 no amendment shall be in order except: (1) the amend16 ments printed in part A of the report of the Committee 

17 on Rules accompanying this resolution, which may be of18 fered only in the order printed in the report, may be of19 fered only by a Member designated in the report, shall 

20 be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time spec21 ified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 

22 proponent and an opponent, and shall not be subject to 

23 a demand for division of the question; (2) not to exceed 

24 eight of the amendments printed in part B of the report 

25 of the Committee on Rules if offered by Representative 


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1 Flake of Arizona or his designee, which may be offered 

2 only in the order printed in the report, shall be considered 

3 as read, and shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally di4 vided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent; 

5 (3) an en bloc amendment, if offered by Rep. Flake of 

6 Arizona or his designee, consisting of all of the amend7 ments printed in part B of the report of the Committee 

8 on Rules, which shall be considered as read, shall be debat9 able for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 

10 proponent and an opponent, and shall not be subject to 

11 a demand for division of the question; and (4) not to ex12 ceed two of the amendments printed in part C of the re13 port of the Committee on Rules if offered by Representa14 tive Campbell of California or his designee, which may be 

15 offered only in the order printed in the report, shall be 

16 considered as read, and shall be debatable for 10 minutes 

17 equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 

18 opponent. All points of order against such amendments 

19 are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of 

20 rule XXI. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill 

21 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the 

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

23 adopted. In the case of sundry amendments reported from 

24 the Committee, the question of their adoption shall be put 

25 to the House en gros and without division of the question. 


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1 The previous question shall be considered as ordered on 

2 the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without 

3 intervening motion except one motion to recommit with 

4 or without instructions. 

5 SEC. 2. After disposition of the amendments specified 

6 in the first section of this resolution, the chair and ranking 

7 minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or 

8 their designees each may offer one pro forma amendment 

9 to the bill for the purpose of debate, which shall be con10 trolled by the proponent. 

11 SEC. 3. The Chair may entertain a motion that the 

12 Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Com13 mittee on Appropriations or his designee. The Chair may 

14 not entertain a motion to strike out the enacting words 

15 of the bill (as described in clause 9 of rule XVIII). 

16 SEC. 4. During consideration of H.R. 3326, the Chair 

17 may reduce to two minutes the minimum time for elec18 tronic voting under clause 6 of rule XVIII and clauses 8 

19 and 9 of rule XX. 


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House Calendar No. 98 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 685 

[Report No. 111–233] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3326) 

2010, and for other purposes. Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, making appropriations for the Department of 

JULY 28, 2009 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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