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House Calendar No. 62

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 185

[Report No. 105–184]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2159) making appropriations

for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the

fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 15, 1997

Mr. DIAZ-BALART, 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. 2159) making

appropriations for foreign operations, export financing,

and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

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

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of

3 rule XXIII, 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. 2159) making appropriations for
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1 foreign operations, export financing, and related programs

2 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for

3 other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dis4 pensed with. Points of order against consideration of the

5 bill for failure to comply with clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI

6 or clause 7 of rule XXI are waived. General debate shall

7 be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equal8 ly divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking mi9 nority member of the Committee on Appropriations. After

10 general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment

11 under the five-minute rule. Points of order against provi12 sions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 or 6

13 of rule XXI are waived except as follows: beginning with

14 ‘‘: Provided’’ on page 24, line 8, through ‘‘justice’’ on line

15 16. Where points of order are waived against part of a

16 paragraph, points or order against a provision in another

17 part of such paragraph may be made only against such

18 provision and not against the entire paragraph. The

19 amendments printed in the report of the Committee on

20 Rules accompanying this resolution may be offered only

21 by a Member designated in the report and only at the ap22 propriate point in the reading of the bill, shall be consid23 ered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in

24 the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent

25 and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment ex-
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1 cept as specified in the report, and shall not be subject

2 to a demand for division of the question in the House or

3 in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against

4 the amendments printed in the report are waived. No

5 other amendment shall be in order unless printed in the

6 portion of the Congressional Record designated for that

7 purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII. The Chairman of the

8 Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a time

9 during further consideration in the Committee of the

10 Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment;

11 and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec12 tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an13 other electronic vote without intervening business, pro14 vided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the

15 first in any series of questions shall be fifteen minutes.

16 At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amend17 ment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the

18 House with such amendments as may have been adopted.

19 The previous question shall be considered as ordered on

20 the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without

21 intervening motion except one motion to recommit with

22 or without instructions.
House Calendar No. 62

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 185

[Report No. 105–184]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2159)

other purposes.cal year ending September 30, 1998, and forport financing, and related programs for the fismaking appropriations for foreign operations, exJULY 15, 1997

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed