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[H. Res. 169 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                  House Calendar No. 50
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 169

                          [Report No. 105-137]

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize 
 appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
        for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                June 19 (legislative day, June 18), 1997

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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize 
 appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
        for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.

    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution 
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the 
House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. The first 
reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order 
against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be 
confined to the bill and the amendments made in order by this 
resolution and shall not exceed two hours equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on National Security. After general debate the bill shall be considered 
for amendment under the five-minute rule.
    Sec. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an original bill 
for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment 
in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on National 
Security now printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute shall be considered as read. All points of order 
against the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute are 
waived.
    (b) No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute shall be in order except the amendments printed in the 
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution and 
amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution.
    (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution, each 
amendment printed in the report of the Committee on Rules shall be 
considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, and 
shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the 
House or in the Committee of the Whole. Unless otherwise specified in 
the report, each amendment printed in the report shall be debatable for 
ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent and shall not be subject to amendment (except that the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on National 
Security each may offer one pro forma amendment for the purpose of 
further debate on any pending amendment).
    (d) All points of order against amendments printed in the report of 
the Committee on Rules and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of 
this resolution are waived.
    (e) Consideration of the first two amendments in part 1 of the 
report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an additional period 
of general debate, which shall be confined to the subject of United 
States forces in Bosnia and shall not exceed one hour equally divided 
and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on National Security.
    Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the 
Committee on National Security or his designee to offer amendments en 
bloc consisting of amendments printed in part 2 of the report of the 
Committee on Rules not earlier disposed of or germane modifications of 
any such amendment. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section 
shall be considered as read (except that modifications shall be 
reported), shall be debatable for twenty minutes equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on National Security or their designees, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. For the purpose 
of inclusion in such amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in the 
form of a motion to strike may be modified to the form of a germane 
perfecting amendment to the text originally proposed to be stricken. 
The original proponent of an amendment included in such amendments en 
bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record immediately 
before the disposition of the amendment en bloc.
    Sec. 4. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) 
postpone until a time during further consideration in the Committee of 
the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment; and (2) 
reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any 
postponed question that follows another electronic vote without 
intervening business, provided that the minimum time for electronic 
voting on the first in any series of questions shall be fifteen 
minutes.
    Sec. 5. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may recognize 
for consideration of any amendment printed in the report of the 
Committee on Rules out of the order printed, but not sooner than one 
hour after the chairman of the Committee on National Security or a 
designee announces from the floor a request to that effect.
    Sec. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for 
amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House 
with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a 
separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of 
the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion 
except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
    Sec. 7. House Resolutions 161, 162, and 165 are laid on the table.




                                                  House Calendar No. 50

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 169

                          [Report No. 105-137]

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                               RESOLUTION

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize 
 appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
        for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.

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                June 19 (legislative day, June 18), 1997

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed`