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House Calendar No. 36

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 152

[Report No. 105–102]

Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 84)

establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government

for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for

fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 19, 1997

Mr. SOLOMON, 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 concurrent resolution (H.

Con. Res. 84) establishing the congressional budget for

the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and

setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years

1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

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 concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 84) estab-
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1 lishing the congressional budget for the United States

2 Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appro3 priate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1990, 2000, 2001,

4 and 2002. The first reading of the concurrent resolution

5 shall be dispensed with. All points of order against the

6 concurrent resolution and against its consideration are

7 waived. General debate shall be confined to the congres8 sional budget and shall not exceed five hours and twenty

9 minutes (including one hour on the subject of economic

10 goals and policies), with five hours equally divided and

11 controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member

12 of the Committee on the Budget and twenty minutes con13 trolled by Representative Minge of Minnesota or his des14 ignee. After general debate the concurrent resolution shall

15 be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.

16 The concurrent resolution shall be considered as read. No

17 amendment shall be in order except the amendments in

18 the nature of substitutes designated in section 2 of this

19 resolution, if printed in the portion of the Congressional

20 Record designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule

21 XXIII. Each amendment may be offered only in the order

22 designated, may be offered only by a Member designated,

23 shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for twenty

24 minutes (except as otherwise provided in section 2) equally

25 divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent,
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1 and shall not be subject to amendment. All points of order

2 against the amendments designated in section 2 are

3 waived except that the adoption of an amendment in the

4 nature of a substitute shall constitute the conclusion of

5 consideration of the concurrent resolution for amendment.

6 The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1)

7 postpone until a time during further consideration in the

8 Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on

9 any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the mini10 mum time for electronic voting on any postponed question

11 that follows another electronic vote without intervening

12 business, provided that the minimum time for electronic

13 voting on the first in any series of questions shall be fif14 teen minutes. After the conclusion of consideration of the

15 concurrent resolution for amendment, the Committee shall

16 rise and report the concurrent resolution to the House

17 with such amendments as may have been adopted. The

18 previous question shall be considered as ordered on the

19 concurrent resolution and amendments thereto to final

20 adoption without intervening motion except amendments

21 offered by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget

22 pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget

23 Act of 1974 to achieve mathematical consistency. The con24 current resolution shall not be subject to a demand for

25 division of the question of its adoption.
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1 SEC. 2. The following amendments are in order pur2 suant to the first section of this resolution:

3 (1) the amendment numbered 1, which shall be

4 debatable for one hour;

5 (2) the amendment numbered 2;

6 (3) the amendment numbered 3;

7 (4) the amendment numbered 4; and

8 (5) the amendment numbered 5.

9 SEC. 3. Rule XLIX shall not apply with respect to

10 the adoption by the Congress of a concurrent resolution

11 on the budget for fiscal year 1998.

House Calendar No. 36

105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 152

[Report No. 105–102]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the concurrent reso2000, 2001, and 2002. propriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, ment for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth ap- gressional budget for the United States Govern- lution (H. Con. Res. 84) establishing the conMAY 19, 1997

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed