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‘‘(2) A privileged resolution introduced in the House 
of Representatives shall be referred, upon introduction, to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A privileged resolution 
shall not be sequentially referred. 
‘‘(3)(A) If, at the end of 10 calendar days after the 
introduction of a privileged resolution, the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs has not reported that resolution, that 
committee shall be discharged from further consideration 
of that resolution and that resolution shall be placed on 
the appropriate calendar of the House, or at any time 
prior to the end of such 10-day period if 30 percent of 
the membership of the House requests that the resolution 
be immediately placed on the appropriate calendar of the 
House. 
‘‘(B) After a privileged resolution has been placed on 
the appropriate calendar, no other privileged resolution 
with respect to the same hostilities may be reported by 
or be discharged from any committee under this sub-
section while the first resolution— 
‘‘(i) is before the House of Representatives (in-
cluding remaining on the calendar), 
‘‘(ii) is before the Senate (including remaining 
on the calendar) unless the Senate has had a vote 
on final passage with respect to the resolution and 
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a majority of those voting did not vote in the affirm-
ative, 
‘‘(iii) is before a committee of conference or 
otherwise awaiting disposition of amendments be-
tween the Houses, or 
‘‘(iv) is awaiting transmittal to the President or 
is before the President. 
‘‘(4)(A)(i) At any time after a privileged resolution 
has been placed on the appropriate calendar, it is in order 
for any Member of the House of Representatives to move 
that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consider-
ation of that resolution. The motion is highly privileged. 
‘‘(ii) The motion under clause (i) is in order even if 
a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed 
to. 
‘‘(B) All points of order against a privileged resolu-
tion and consideration of the resolution are waived. If the 
motion under subparagraph (A) is agreed to, the privi-
leged resolution shall remain the unfinished business of 
the House until disposed of, to the exclusion of all other 
business (other than a motion to adjourn), except as pro-
vided in paragraph (5)(A). A motion to reconsider the vote 
by which the motion is disagreed to is not in order. 
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‘‘(C) General debate on a privileged resolution shall 
not exceed 4 hours, which shall be divided equally between 
a Member favoring and a Member opposing the resolution. 
‘‘(D)(i) At the conclusion of general debate, a privi-
leged resolution shall be considered for amendment under 
the 5-minute rule. 
‘‘(ii) Debate on all amendments shall not exceed 12 
hours. After the expiration of that period, no further 
amendments shall be in order. 
‘‘(iii) Except as provided in the next sentence, debate 
on each amendment, and any amendments thereto, shall 
not exceed one hour. If the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
reports an amendment in the nature of a substitute to the 
text of a privileged resolution, that amendment shall be 
considered to be original text for purposes of amendment 
and debate on each amendment to that amendment, and 
any amendments thereto, shall not exceed one hour. 
‘‘(E) At the conclusion of consideration of amend-
ments to a privileged resolution, the Committee of the 
Whole shall rise and report the resolution back to the 
House, and the previous question shall be considered as 
ordered on the resolution, with any amendments adopted 
in the Committee of the Whole, to final passage without 
intervening motion, except one motion to recommit with 
or without instructions. 
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‘‘(5)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if, 
before the passage by the House of Representatives of a 
privileged resolution of the House, the House receives a 
privileged resolution from the Senate with respect to the 
same or related hostilities, then the following procedures 
shall apply: 
‘‘(i) The resolution of the Senate shall not be 
referred to a committee. 
‘‘(ii) With respect to the privileged resolution of 
the House— 
‘‘(I) the procedure in the House shall be 
the same as if no resolution had been received 
from the Senate; but 
‘‘(II) the privileged resolution of the Sen-
ate shall be considered to have been read for 
the third time; the vote on final passage shall 
be on the resolution of the Senate (if the resolu-
tions are identical), or on the resolution of the 
Senate (if they are not identical) with the text 
of the resolution of the House inserted in lieu 
of the text of the resolution of the Senate; and 
the vote on final passage shall occur without de-
bate or any intervening action. 
‘‘(iii) Upon disposition of a privileged resolution 
received from the Senate, consideration of the privi-
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leged resolution of the House shall no longer be priv-
ileged under this section. 
‘‘(B) If the House receives from the Senate a privi-
leged resolution before any privileged resolution is intro-
duced in the House with respect to the same or related 
hostilities, then the resolution of the Senate shall be re-
ferred to the appropriate committee or committees, and 
the procedures in the House with respect to that resolu-
tion shall be the same under this subsection as if the reso-
lution received had been introduced in the House. 
‘‘(C) If the House receives from the Senate a privi-
leged resolution after the House has disposed of an iden-
tical privileged resolution, it shall be in order to proceed 
by a highly privileged, nondebatable motion to consider-
ation of the resolution of the Senate, and that resolution 
shall be disposed of without debate and without amend-
ment. 
‘‘(6) A motion to disagree with amendments of the 
Senate to a privileged resolution of the House and request 
or agree to a conference with the Senate, or a motion to 
insist on the House amendments to a privileged resolution 
of the Senate and request or agree to a conference of the 
Senate, is highly privileged. 
‘‘(7)(A) If the conferees are unable to agree on resolv-
ing the differences between the two Houses with respect 
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