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House Calendar No. 88
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 250
[Report No. 106–236]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 434) to authorize a new trade
and investment policy for sub-Sahara Africa.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 16 (legislative day, JULY 15), 1999
Mr. REYNOLDS, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 434) to author-
ize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Sahara
Africa.
Resolved, That, at any time after the adoption of this
resolution 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 consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 434) to authorize a new trade and
investment policy for sub-Sahara Africa. The first reading
of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order
HRES 250 RH
against consideration of the bill are waived. General de-
bate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed nine-
ty minutes, with forty-five minutes equally divided and
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member
of the Committee on International Relations and forty-five
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways
and Means. After general debate the bill shall be consid-
ered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu
of the amendments recommended by the Committees on
International Relations and Ways and Means now printed
in the bill, it shall be in order to consider as an original
bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute
rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting
of the text of H.R. 2489. All points of order against that
amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived. No
amendment to that amendment in the nature of a sub-
stitute shall be in order except those printed in the report
of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution.
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 debat-
able 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
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a demand for division of the question in the House or in
the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against
the amendments printed in the report are waived. The
chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) post-
pone until a time during further consideration in the Com-
mittee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any
amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum
time for electronic voting on any postponed question that
follows another electronic vote without intervening busi-
ness, provided 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 amend-
ment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the
House with such amendments as may have been adopted.
Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House
on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole
to the bill or to the amendment in the nature of a sub-
stitute made in order as original text. The previous ques-
tion shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amend-
ments thereto to final passage without intervening motion
except one motion to recommit with or without instruc-
tions.