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House Calendar No. 161
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 393
[Report No. 105–463]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3246) to assist small businesses
and labor organizations in defending themselves against government bu-
reaucracy; to ensure that employees entitled to reinstatement get their
jobs back quickly; to protect the right of employers to have a hearing
to present their case in certain representation cases; and to prevent
the use of the National Labor Relations Act for the purpose of disrupting
or inflicting economic harm on employers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 25, 1998
Mr. DREIER, 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. 3246) to assist
small businesses and labor organizations in defending
themselves against government bureaucracy; to ensure
that employees entitled to reinstatement get their jobs
back quickly; to protect the right of employers to have
a hearing to present their case in certain representation
cases; and to prevent the use of the National Labor
Relations Act for the purpose of disrupting or inflicting
economic harm on employers.
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Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this
resolution 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 consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 3246) to assist small businesses
and labor organizations in defending themselves against
government bureaucracy; to ensure that employees enti-
tled to reinstatement get their jobs back quickly; to protect
the right of employers to have a hearing to present their
case in certain representation cases; and to prevent the
use of the National Labor Relations Act for the purpose
of disrupting or inflicting economic harm on employers.
The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. Gen-
eral debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not ex-
ceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Education and the Workforce. After general debate the
bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-
minute rule. The bill shall be considered as read. No
amendment shall be in order except those printed in the
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this reso-
lution. Each amendment may be offered only in the order
printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member
designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall
be debatable for the time specified in the report equally
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divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent,
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be sub-
ject to a demand for division of the question in the House
or in the Committee of the Whole. The chairman 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 amendment;
and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec-
tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an-
other electronic vote without intervening business, pro-
vided 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 amendment
the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House
with such amendments as may have been adopted. The
previous question shall be considered as ordered on the
bill and amendments thereto to final passage without in-
tervening motion except one motion to recommit with or
without instructions.