H. Res. 401
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
April 13, 1994.
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this res-
olution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule
XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the Union for further consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 4092) to control and prevent crime.
No further general debate shall be in order. The bill shall be
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule and
shall be considered as read. Except as provided in section 2
of this resolution, no amendment shall be in order except
those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accom-
panying this resolution. Each amendment printed in the re-
port may be offered only in the order printed, may be offered
only by a Member designated in the report, shall be consid-
ered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an
opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except as speci-
fied in the report, and shall not be subject to a demand for
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of
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the Whole. All points of order against the amendments print-
ed in the report are waived. If more than one of the following
amendments printed in part 1 of the report relating to ha-
beas corpus is adopted, only the last to be adopted shall be
considered as finally adopted and reported to the House: by
Representative Hyde of Illinois; and by Representative Der-
rick of South Carolina.
SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman
of the Committee on the Judiciary or his designee to offer
amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in
part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules or germane
modifications of any such amendment. Amendments en bloc
offered pursuant to this section shall be considered as read
(except that modifications shall be reported), shall be debat-
able for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on
the Judiciary, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the
House or in the Committee of the Whole. For the purpose
of inclusion in such amendments en bloc, an amendment
printed in the form of a motion to strike may be modified
to the form of a germane perfecting amendment to the text
originally proposed to be stricken. All points of order against
such amendments en bloc are waived. The original proponent
of an amendment included in such amendments en bloc may
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insert a statement in the Congressional Record immediately
before the disposition of the amendments en bloc.
SEC. 3. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole
may postpone until a time during further consideration in the
Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any
amendment made in order by this resolution. The chairman
of the Committee of the Whole may reduce to not less than
five minutes the time for voting by electronic device on any
postponed question that immediately follows another vote by
electronic device without intervening business, provided that
the time for voting by electronic device on the first in any
series of questions shall be not less than 15 minutes.
SEC. 4. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for
amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to
the House with such amendments as may have been finally
adopted. The previous question shall be considered as ordered
on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without
intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
SEC. 5. After passage of H.R. 4092, it shall be in order
to take from the Speaker’s table the bill H.R. 3355, with a
Senate amendment thereto, and to consider the Senate
amendment in the House. It shall be in order to move to con-
cur in the Senate amendment with an amendment inserting
the text of H.R. 4092 as passed by the House in lieu of the
matter proposed to be inserted by the Senate. All points of
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order against that motion are waived. If the motion is adopt-
ed, then it shall be in order to move that the House insist
on its amendments to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3355
and request a conference with the Senate thereon.
Attest:
Clerk.