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House Calendar No. 193

105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. RES. 441

[Report No. 105–544]

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3616) to authorize

appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal

year 1999, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 19, 1998

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 further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3616)

to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe

military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1999, 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 further

5 consideration of the bill (H.R. 3616) to authorize appro-
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1 priations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the

2 Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel

3 strengths for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes. No

4 further general debate shall be in order. The bill shall be

5 considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.

6 SEC. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an origi7 nal bill for the purpose of amendment under the five8 minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute

9 recommended by the Committee on National Security now

10 printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the na11 ture of a substitute shall be considered as read. All points

12 of order against the committee amendment in the nature

13 of a substitute are waived.

14 (b) No amendment to the committee amendment in

15 the nature of a substitute shall be in order except the

16 amendments printed in the report of the Committee on

17 Rules accompanying this resolution and amendments en

18 bloc described in section 3 of this resolution.

19 (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution,

20 each amendment printed in the report of the Committee

21 on Rules shall be considered only in the order printed in

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

23 in the report, shall be considered as read, and shall not

24 be subject to a demand for division of the question in the

25 House or in the Committee of the Whole. Unless otherwise
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1 specified in the report, each amendment printed in the re2 port shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally divided and

3 controlled by the proponent and an opponent and shall not

4 be subject to amendment (except that the chairman and

5 ranking minority member of the Committee on National

6 Security each may offer one pro forma amendment for the

7 purpose of further debate on any pending amendment).

8 (d) All points of order against amendments printed

9 in the report of the Committee on Rules or amendments

10 en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution are waived.

11 (e)(1) Consideration of the amendments in part A of

12 the report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an

13 additional period of general debate, which shall be con14 fined to the subject of the policy of the United States with

15 respect to the People’s Republic of China and shall not

16 exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by the

17 chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee

18 on National Security.

19 (2) Consideration of the amendments in part C of

20 the report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an

21 additional period of general debate, which shall be con22 fined to the subject of the assignment of members of the

23 armed forces to assist in border control and shall not ex24 ceed 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the
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1 chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee

2 on National Security.

3 SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair4 man of the Committee on National Security or his des5 ignee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amend6 ments printed in part D of the report of the Committee

7 on Rules not earlier disposed of germane modifications of

8 any such amendment. Amendments en bloc offered pursu9 ant to this section shall be considered as read (except that

10 modifications shall be reported), shall be debatable for 20

11 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman

12 and ranking minority member of the Committee on Na13 tional Security or their designees, shall not be subject to

14 amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for divi15 sion of the question in the House or in the Committee

16 of the Whole. For the purpose of inclusion in such amend17 ments en bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a

18 motion to strike may be modified to the form of a germane

19 perfecting amendment to the text originally proposed to

20 be stricken. The original proponent of an amendment in21 cluded in such amendments en bloc may insert a state22 ment in the Congressional Record immediately before the

23 disposition of the amendments en bloc.

24 SEC. 4. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole

25 may: (1) postpone until a time during further consider-
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1 ation in the Committee of the Whole a request for a re2 corded vote on any amendments; and (2) reduce to five

3 minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on any

4 postponed question that follows another electronic vote

5 without intervening business, provided that the minimum

6 time for electronic voting on the first in any series of ques7 tions shall be 15 minutes.

8 SEC. 5. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole

9 may recognize for consideration of any amendment printed

10 in the report of the Committee on Rules out of the order

11 printed, but not sooner than one hour after the chairman

12 of the Committee on National Security or a designee an13 nounces from the floor a request to that effect.

14 SEC. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill

15 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the

16 bill to the House with such amendments as may have been

17 adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the

18 House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of

19 the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in

20 the nature of a substitute. The previous question shall be

21 considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto

22 to final passage without intervening motion except one

23 motion to recommit with or without instructions.
House Calendar No. 193

105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. RES. 441

[Report No. 105–544]

RESOLUTION

Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R.

for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths1999 for military activities of the Department of3616) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year

MAY 19, 1998

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed