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House Calendar No. 120

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 283

[Report No. 105–354]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1270) to amend the Nuclear

Waste Policy Act of 1982.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OCTOBER 28, 1997

Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, 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. 1270) to amend

the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

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. 1270) to amend the Nuclear Waste

6 Policy Act of 1982. The first reading of the bill shall be

7 dispensed with. Points of order against consideration of
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1 the bill for failure to comply with section 306 of the Con2 gressional Budget Act of 1974 are waived. General debate

3 shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed eighty

4 minutes, with sixty minutes equally divided and controlled

5 by the chairman and ranking minority member of the

6 Committee on Commerce and twenty minutes equally di7 vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor8 ity member of the Committee on Resources. After general

9 debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under

10 the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as

11 an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the

12 five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a sub13 stitute recommended by the Committee on Commerce now

14 printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the na15 ture of a substitute shall be considered as read. Points

16 of order against the committee amendment in the nature

17 of a substitute for failure to comply with clause 5(a) of

18 rule XXI or section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act

19 of 1974 are waived. Notwithstanding clause 5(c) of rule

20 XXIII, no amendment to the committee amendment in the

21 nature of a substitute shall be in order except those print22 ed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying

23 this resolution. Each amendment may be offered only in

24 the order printed in the report, may be offered only by

25 a Member designated in the report, shall be considered
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1 as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the

2 report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and

3 an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall

4 not be subject to a demand for division of the question

5 in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. Points

6 of order against the last amendment printed in the report

7 of the Committee on Rules for failure to comply with

8 clause 5(a) of rule XXI or section 306 of the Congres9 sional Budget Act of 1974 are waived. The Chairman of

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

11 time during further consideration in the Committee of the

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

13 and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec14 tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an15 other electronic vote without intervening business, pro16 vided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the

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

18 After a motion that the Committee rise has been rejected

19 on a day, the Chairman may entertain another such mo20 tion on that day only if offered by the majority leader or

21 his designee. After a motion to strike out the enacting

22 words of the bill (as described in clause 7 of rule XXIII)

23 has been rejected, the Chairman may not entertain an24 other such motion during further consideration of the bill.

25 At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amend-
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1 ment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the

2 House with such amendments as may have been adopted.

3 Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House

4 on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole

5 to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature

6 of a substitute. The previous question shall be considered

7 as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final

8 passage without intervening motion except one motion to

9 recommit with or without instructions.

10 SEC. 2. After passage of H.R. 1270, it shall be in

11 order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill, S. 104,

12 and to consider the Senate bill in the House. Points of

13 order against consideration of the Senate bill for failure

14 to comply with section 306 of the Congressional Budget

15 Act of 1974 are waived. It shall be in order to move to

16 strike all after the enacting clause of the Senate bill and

17 to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 1270 as

18 passed by the House. If the motion is adopted and the

19 Senate bill, as amended, is passed, then it shall be in order

20 to move that the House insist on its amendment to S. 104

21 and request a conference with the Senate thereon.

House Calendar No. 120

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 283

[Report No. 105–354]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1270)

to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

OCTOBER 28, 1997

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed