decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate, 
as the case may be, to the procedure 
relating to a joint resolution of ap-
proval shall be decided without de-
bate. 
‘‘(E) RULES RELATING TO SENATE AND 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
‘‘(i) COORDINATION WITH ACTION BY 
OTHER HOUSE.—If, before the passage by 
one House of a joint resolution of that 
House, that House receives from the other 
House a joint resolution of approval that is 
identical to the joint resolution of the 
House receiving the resolution, then the 
following procedures shall apply: 
‘‘(I) The joint resolution of the 
other House shall not be referred to a 
committee. 
‘‘(II) With respect to a joint res-
olution of the House receiving the res-
olution— 
‘‘(aa) the procedure in that 
House shall be the same as if no 
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joint resolution had been received 
from the other House; but 
‘‘(bb) the vote on passage 
shall— 
‘‘(AA) require the af-
firmative vote of two-thirds 
of Senators, duly chosen and 
sworn, for passage; and 
‘‘(BB) be on the joint 
resolution 
of 
the 
other 
House. 
‘‘(ii) TREATMENT OF JOINT RESOLU-
TION
OF
OTHER
HOUSE.—If one House 
fails to introduce or consider a joint resolu-
tion under this section, the joint resolution 
of the other House shall be entitled to ex-
pedited floor procedures under this para-
graph. 
‘‘(iii) TREATMENT
OF
COMPANION 
MEASURES.—If, following passage of the 
joint resolution in the Senate, the Senate 
then receives an identical resolution from 
the House of Representatives, the resolu-
tion of the House shall not be debatable. 
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‘‘(iv) CONSIDERATION OF VETO MES-
SAGES.—If the President vetoes a joint 
resolution of approval, debate on a veto 
message in the Senate shall be 1 hour 
equally divided between the majority and 
minority leaders or their designees. 
‘‘(F) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES AND SENATE.—This paragraph enacted 
by the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives— 
‘‘(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking 
power of the Senate and House, respec-
tively, and as such it is deemed a part of 
the rules of each House, respectively, but 
applicable only with respect to the proce-
dure to be followed in that House in the 
case of a joint resolution of approval, and 
it supersedes other rules only to the extent 
that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 
‘‘(ii) with full recognition of the con-
stitutional right of either House to change 
the rules (so far as relating to the proce-
dure 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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‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR TESTING.—The 
term ‘explosive nuclear testing’— 
‘‘(i) means testing involving the explo-
sive compression or assembly of fissile ma-
terial to exceed critical mass with the at-
tendant release of any nuclear energy from 
fission processes; and 
‘‘(ii) does not include subcritical ex-
periments carried out as part of the stock-
pile stewardship program under section 
4201, laser fusion experiments, or other in-
ertial confinement fusion experiments how-
ever driven. 
‘‘(B) TECHNICAL NEED.—The term ‘tech-
nical need’, with respect to explosive nuclear 
testing, means that all officials specified in sec-
tion 4205(b) determine that an explosive nu-
clear test is necessary to resolve an issue with 
respect to the safety, reliability, performance, or 
military effectiveness of a nuclear weapon 
type.’’. 
Æ 
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