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[H. Res. 441 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 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.


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                    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

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                               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.

    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 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. No further general debate 
shall be in order. 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 
10 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 or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of 
this resolution are waived.
    (e)(1) Consideration of the amendments in part A 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 the policy of the 
United States with respect to the People's Republic of China and shall 
not exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on National Security.
    (2) Consideration of the amendments in part C 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 the assignment of 
members of the armed forces to assist in border control and shall not 
exceed 30 minutes 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 D of the report of the 
Committee on Rules not earlier disposed of 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 20 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 amendments 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 amendments; 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 15 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.




                                                 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. 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.

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                              May 19, 1998

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed`