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House Calendar No. 63 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 440 
[Report No. 115–217] 
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2810) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13 (legislative day, JULY 12), 2017 
Mr. BYRNE, 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. 2810) 
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for mili-
tary activities of the Department of Defense and for 
military construction, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. 
Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this reso-
lution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
XVIII, 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. 2810) to authorize appro-
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priations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes. 
SEC. 2. (a) No further amendment to the bill, as 
amended, shall be in order except those printed in the re-
port of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolu-
tion and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this 
resolution. 
(b) Each further amendment printed in the report of 
the Committee on Rules shall be considered only in the 
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Mem-
ber designated in the report, shall be considered 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, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question 
in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
(c) All points of order against the further amend-
ments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this reso-
lution are waived. 
SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair 
of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee to 
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-
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ed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amendments en 
bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be considered 
as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided 
and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Armed Services or their designees, 
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. 
SEC. 4. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill 
for amendment pursuant to this resolution the Committee 
shall rise and report the bill to the House with such fur-
ther amendments as may have been 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 with or without in-
structions. 
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House Calendar No. 63 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 440 
[Report No. 115–217] 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 
2810) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 for military activities of the Department of 
Defense and for military construction, to pre-
scribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes. 
JULY 13 (legislative day, JULY 12), 2017 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed 
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