House Calendar No. 88
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 254
[Report No. 103–252]
RESOLUTION
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R.
2401) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
1994 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths
for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1993
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed
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House Calendar No. 88
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 254
[Report No. 103–252]
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal
year 1994, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 22, 1993
Mr. FROST, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401)
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for mili-
tary activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1994, and
for other purposes.
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 further
consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize appro-
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priations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes. No
further amendment to the committee amendment in the
nature of a substitute shall be in order except the amend-
ments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution and amendments en bloc de-
scribed in section 3 of this resolution. Pro forma amend-
ments for the purpose of debate may be offered only by
the chairman or ranking minority member of the Commit-
tee on Armed Services. Except as specified in sections 2
through 4 of this resolution, each amendment may be of-
fered only in the order printed in the report, may be of-
fered only by a Member designated in the report, shall
be considered as read, shall not be subject to amendment
except as specified in the report, and shall not be subject
to a demand for division of the question in the House or
in the Committee of the Whole. Except as otherwise speci-
fied in the report, each amendment printed in the report
shall be debatable for ten minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by the proponent and an opponent. All points of
order against amendments printed in the report are
waived.
SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time to consider
the amendments printed in part 1 of the report of the
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Committee on Rules in the order printed. Such consider-
ation shall begin with an additional period of general de-
bate, which shall be confined to section 575 of the commit-
tee amendment in the nature of a substitute and the
amendments printed in part 1 of the report and shall not
exceed one hour equally divided and controlled among the
chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, the rank-
ing minority member of the Committee on Armed Services,
and Representative Skelton of Missouri. If more than one
of the amendments printed in part 1 of the report is
adopted, only the last to be adopted shall be considered
as finally adopted and reported to the House.
SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair-
man of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee
to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments
printed in part 4 of the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution or in House Report 103–236
or germane modifications thereof. Amendments en bloc
shall be considered as read except that modifications shall
be reported. Amendments en bloc shall be debatable for
twenty minutes equally divided and controlled by the
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee
on Armed Services, 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.
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For the purpose of inclusion in amendments en bloc, an
amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike may
be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amend-
ment to the text originally proposed to be stricken. All
points of order against amendments en bloc are waived.
The original proponent of an amendment included in
amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Con-
gressional Record immediately before the disposition of
the amendments en bloc.
SEC. 4. 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 elec-
tronic device on any postponed question that immediately
follows another vote by electronic device without interven-
ing business, provided that the time for voting by elec-
tronic device on the first in any series of questions shall
be not less than fifteen minutes. The chairman of the
Committee of the Whole may recognize for consideration
of an amendment printed in parts 2 through 4 of the re-
port of the Committee on Rules out of the order printed,
but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the
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Committee on Armed Services announces from the floor
a request to that effect.
SEC. 5. 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. Any Member may demand a separate vote
in the House on any amendment adopted in the Commit-
tee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amend-
ment in the nature of a substitute. 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 with or without instructions.