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House Calendar No. 89 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 644 

[Report No. 111–208] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3170) making appropriations 

for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending 

September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 14, 2009 

Mr. PERLMUTTER, 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. 3170) making 

appropriations for financial services and general government 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. 3170) making appropriations for 


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1 financial services and general government for the fiscal 

2 year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. 

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

4 points of order against consideration of the bill are waived 

5 except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. 

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

7 exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair 

8 and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appro9 priations. After general debate the bill shall be considered 

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

11 be considered as read through page 145, line 11. Points 

12 of 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 the amendments 

16 printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accom17 panying this resolution. Each such amendment 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 10 minutes 

21 equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 

22 opponent, and shall not be subject to a demand for divi23 sion of the question in the House or in the Committee 

24 of the Whole. All points of order against such amendments 

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


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1 rule XXI. 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 adopted. In the case of sundry amendments reported from 

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

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

7 The previous question shall be considered as ordered on 

8 the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without 

9 intervening motion except one motion to recommit with 

10 or without instructions. 

11 SEC. 2. After disposition of the amendments specified 

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

13 minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or 

14 their designees each may offer one pro forma amendment 

15 to the bill for the purpose of debate, which shall be con16 trolled by the proponent. 

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

18 Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Com19 mittee on Appropriations or his designee. The Chair may 

20 not entertain a motion to strike out the enacting words 

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

22 SEC. 4. During consideration of H.R. 3170, the Chair 

23 may reduce to two minutes the minimum time for elec24 tronic voting under clause 6 of rule XVIII and clauses 8 

25 and 9 of rule XX. 


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House Calendar No. 89 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 644 

[Report No. 111–208] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3170) 

September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. general government for the fiscal year ending making appropriations for financial services and 

JULY 14, 2009 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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