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House Calendar No. 226
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 506
[Report No. 106–627]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4392) to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2001 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities
of the United States Government, the Community Management Account,
and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 18, 2000
Mr. GOSS, 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. 4392) to author-
ize appropriations for fiscal year 2001 for intelligence
and intelligence-related activities of the United States
Government, the Community Management Account, and
the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Dis-
ability System, and for other purposes.
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of
rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee
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of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 4392) to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2001 for intelligence and intelligence-re-
lated activities of the United States Government, the Com-
munity Management Account, and the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other
purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed
with. Points of order against consideration of the bill for
failure to comply with clause 4(a) of rule XIII are waived.
General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not
exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the
chairman and ranking minority member of the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence. After general debate the
bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-
minute rule. 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 rec-
ommended by the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence now printed in the bill. The committee amendment
in the nature of a substitute shall be considered by title
rather than by section. Each title shall be considered as
read. Points of order against the committee amendment
in the nature of a substitute for failure to comply with
clause 7 of rule XVI are waived. No amendment to the
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall
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be in order except those printed in the portion of the Con-
gressional Record designated for that purpose in clause
8 of rule XVIII and except pro forma amendments for
the purpose of debate. Each amendment so printed may
be offered only by the Member who caused it to be printed
or his designee and shall be considered as read. The Chair-
man 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 amend-
ment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time
for electronic voting on any postponed question that fol-
lows 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.
At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amend-
ment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the
House with such amendments as may be 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 pas-
sage without intervening motion except one motion to re-
commit with or without instructions.