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House Calendar No. 35 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 476 

[Report No. 116–143] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2500) to authorize appropriations 

for fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense 

and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths 

for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 9, 2019 

Mr. MCGOVERN, 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. 2500) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 

such fiscal year, and for other purposes, and providing 

for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. 

1 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this reso2 lution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 

3 XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of 


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1 the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider2 ation of the bill (H.R. 2500) to authorize appropriations 

3 for fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Depart4 ment of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe 

5 military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 

6 other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dis7 pensed with. All points of order against consideration of 

8 the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to 

9 the bill and amendments specified in this section and shall 

10 not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the 

11 chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 

12 Armed Services. After general debate the bill shall be con13 sidered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu 

14 of the amendment in the nature of a substitute rec15 ommended by the Committee on Armed Services now 

16 printed in the bill, an amendment in the nature of a sub17 stitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 

18 116-19, modified by the amendment printed in part A of 

19 the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 

20 resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the House 

21 and in the Committee of the Whole. The bill, as amended, 

22 shall be considered as the original bill for the purpose of 

23 further amendment under the five-minute rule and shall 

24 be considered as read. All points of order against provi25 sions in the bill, as amended, are waived. 


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1 SEC. 2. (a) No further amendment to the bill, as 

2 amended, shall be in order except those printed in part 

3 B of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 

4 this resolution and amendments en bloc described in sec5 tion 3 of this resolution. 

6 (b) Each further amendment printed in part B of the 

7 report of the Committee on Rules shall be considered only 

8 in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 

9 by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 

10 as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 

11 report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 

12 an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any 

13 time before action thereon, shall not be subject to amend14 ment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division 

15 of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 

16 Whole. 

17 (c) All points of order against the further amend18 ments printed in part B of the report of the Committee 

19 on Rules or amendments en bloc described in section 3 

20 of this resolution are waived. 

21 SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 

22 of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee to 

23 offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print24 ed in part B of the report of the Committee on Rules ac25 companying this resolution not earlier disposed of. AmendVerDate Sep 11 2014 02:19 Jul 10, 2019 Jkt 034408 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR476.RH HR476

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1 ments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be con2 sidered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally 

3 divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 

4 member of the Committee on Armed Services or their des5 ignees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not 

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

7 House or in the Committee of the Whole. 

8 SEC. 4. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill 

9 for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the 

10 bill to the House with such further amendments as may 

11 have been adopted. In the case of sundry further amend12 ments reported from the Committee, the question of their 

13 adoption shall be put to the House en gros and without 

14 division of the question. The previous question shall be 

15 considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto 

16 to final passage without intervening motion except one 

17 motion to recommit with or without instructions. 

18 SEC. 5. Clause 7(a)(1) of rule XV shall not apply with 

19 respect to H.R. 553. 

20 SEC. 6. It shall be in order at any time on the legisla21 tive day of July 11, 2019, or July 12, 2019, for the Speak22 er to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules, 

23 as though under clause 1 of rule XV, relating to the bill 

24 (H.R. 1327) to extend authorization for the September 


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1 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 through fiscal 

2 year 2090, and for other purposes. 


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House Calendar No. 35 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 476 

[Report No. 116–143] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2500) 

eration of motions to suspend the rules. and for other purposes, and providing for considmilitary personnel strengths for such fiscal year, fense and for military construction, to prescribe for military activities of the Department of Deto authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 

JULY 9, 2019 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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