controlled by, the majority leader and the mi-
nority leader or their designees. 
(5) RULES RELATING TO SENATE AND HOUSE 
OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
(A) TREATMENT OF SENATE RESOLUTION 
IN HOUSE.—In the House of Representatives, 
the following procedures shall apply to a cov-
ered resolution received from the Senate (unless 
the House has already passed a resolution relat-
ing to the same proposed action): 
(i) The resolution shall be referred to 
the appropriate committees. 
(ii) If a committee to which a resolu-
tion has been referred has not reported the 
resolution within 2 calendar days after the 
date of referral, that committee shall be 
discharged from further consideration of 
the resolution. 
(iii) Beginning on the third legislative 
day after each committee to which a reso-
lution has been referred reports the resolu-
tion to the House or has been discharged 
from further consideration thereof, it shall 
be in order to move to proceed to consider 
the resolution in the House. All points of 
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order against the motion are waived. Such 
a motion shall not be in order after the 
House has disposed of a motion to proceed 
on the resolution. The previous question 
shall be considered as ordered on the mo-
tion to its adoption without intervening 
motion. The motion shall not be debatable. 
A motion to reconsider the vote by which 
the motion is disposed of shall not be in 
order. 
(iv) The resolution shall be considered 
as read. All points of order against the res-
olution and against its consideration are 
waived. The previous question shall be con-
sidered as ordered on the resolution to 
final passage without intervening motion 
except 2 hours of debate equally divided 
and controlled by the sponsor of the reso-
lution (or a designee) and an opponent. A 
motion to reconsider the vote on passage of 
the resolution shall not be in order. 
(B) TREATMENT OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 
IN SENATE.— 
(i) RECEIVED
BEFORE
PASSAGE
OF 
SENATE RESOLUTION.—If, before the pas-
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sage by the Senate of a covered resolution, 
the Senate receives an identical resolution 
from the House of Representatives, the fol-
lowing procedures shall apply: 
(I) That resolution shall not be 
referred to a committee. 
(II) With respect to that resolu-
tion— 
(aa) the procedure in the 
Senate shall be the same as if no 
resolution had been received from 
the House of Representatives; 
but 
(bb) the vote on passage 
shall be on the resolution from 
the House of Representatives. 
(ii) RECEIVED
AFTER
PASSAGE
OF 
SENATE
RESOLUTION.—If, following pas-
sage of a covered resolution in the Senate, 
the Senate receives an identical resolution 
from the House of Representatives, that 
resolution shall be placed on the appro-
priate Senate calendar. 
(iii) NO
SENATE
COMPANION.—If a 
covered resolution is received from the 
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House of Representatives, and no com-
panion resolution has been introduced in 
the Senate, the Senate procedures under 
this subsection shall apply to the resolution 
from the House of Representatives. 
(C) APPLICATION
TO
REVENUE
MEAS-
URES.—The provisions of this paragraph shall 
not apply in the House of Representatives to a 
covered resolution that is a revenue measure. 
(6) RULES
OF
HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con-
gress— 
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 
of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, respectively, and as such is deemed a part 
of the rules of each House, respectively, and su-
persedes other rules only to the extent that it 
is inconsistent with such rules; and 
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules 
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
to the same extent as in the case of any other 
rule of that House. 
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SEC. 9. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as an author-
ization of military force against China. 
Æ 
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