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House Calendar No. 45

108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 245

[Report No. 108–120] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1588) to authorize appropriations 

for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 

to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2004, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 20, 2003

Mrs. MYRICK, 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. 1588) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military 

personnel strengths for fiscal year 2004, and for other 

purposes.

1 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 

3 rule XVIII, 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. 1588) to authorize appropriations 
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1 for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Depart2 ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 

3 for fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes. The first 

4 reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of 

5 order against consideration of the bill are waived. General 

6 debate shall be confined to the bill and the amendments 

7 made in order by this resolution and shall not exceed two 

8 hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 

9 ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed 

10 Services. After general debate the bill shall be considered 

11 for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in 

12 order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of 

13 amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in 

14 the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee 

15 on Armed Services now printed in the bill. The committee 

16 amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be consid17 ered as read. All points of order against the committee 

18 amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived. No 

19 amendment to the committee amendment in the nature 

20 of a substitute shall be in order except those printed in 

21 the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 

22 resolution and those made in order by a subsequent order 

23 of the House. Each amendment printed in the report of 

24 the Committee on Rules may be offered only in the order 

25 printed in the report (except as specified in section 2 of 
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1 this resolution), may be offered only by a Member des2 ignated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall 

3 be debatable for the time specified in the report equally 

4 divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 

5 shall not be subject to amendment (except that the chair6 man and ranking minority member of the Committee on 

7 Armed Services each may offer one pro forma amendment 

8 for the purpose of further debate on any pending amend9 ment), and shall not be subject to a demand for division 

10 of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 

11 Whole. All points of order against amendments printed in 

12 the report are waived. After disposition of the amend13 ments printed in the report, the Committee of the Whole 

14 shall rise without motion. No further consideration of the 

15 bill shall be in order except by a subsequent order of the 

16 House. 

17 SEC. 2. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 

18 may recognize for consideration of any amendment printed 

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

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

21 of the Committee on Armed Services or a designee an22 nounces from the floor a request to that effect. 

23 SEC. 3. During consideration of the bill under this 

24 resolution or by a subsequent order of the House—
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1 (1) after a motion that the Committee rise has 

2 been rejected on a legislative day, the Chairman of 

3 the Committee of the Whole may entertain another 

4 such motion on that day only if offered by the chair5 man of the Committee on Armed Services or the 

6 Majority Leader or a designee; and 

7 (2) after a motion to strike out the enacting 

8 words of the bill (as described in clause 9 of rule 

9 XVIII) has been rejected, the Chairman may not en10 tertain another such motion. 

House Calendar No. 45

108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 245

[Report No. 108–120] 

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1588) 

to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes. 

MAY 20, 2003

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed