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House Calendar No. 164
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 431
[Report No. 103–520]
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 4301) to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal
year 1995, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 20, 1994
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. 4301)
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for mili-
tary activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1995, 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. 4301) to authorize appro-
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priations for fiscal year 1995 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1995, and for other purposes.
SEC. 2. After further general debate, which shall be
confined to the bill and amendments made in order by this
resolution and which shall not exceed one hour equally di-
vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor-
ity member of the Committee on Armed Services, no fur-
ther amendment to the committee amendment in the na-
ture of a substitute shall be in order except the amend-
ments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution or in part 1 of House Report
103–509 and amendments en bloc described in section 4
of this resolution. Except as specified in section 3, 4, or
5 of this resolution, each amendment printed in the report
shall be considered only in the order printed and may be
offered only by a Member designated in the report. Each
amendment printed in the report shall be considered as
read and shall not be subject to a demand for division
of the question in the House or in the Committee of the
Whole. Unless otherwise specified in the report, each
amendment printed in the report shall be debatable for
ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the pro-
ponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to
amendment (except that pro forma amendments for the
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purpose of debate may be offered by the chairman or rank-
ing minority member of the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices). All points of order against amendments printed in
the report are waived.
SEC. 3. (a) After disposition of or postponement of
further proceedings on amendments printed in part 1 of
the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this
resolution or in part 1 of House Report 103–509, it shall
be in order to consider the amendment printed in part 2
of that report.
(b) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendment printed in part 2 of the
report, it shall be in order to consider the amendments
printed in part 3 of the report. Such consideration shall
begin with an additional period of general debate, which
shall be confined to the subject of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and shall not exceed thirty minutes equally divided and
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member
of the Committee on Armed Services. If more than one
of the amendments printed in part 3 of the report is
adopted, only the last to be adopted shall be considered
as finally adopted and reported to the House.
(c) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 3 of the
report, it shall be in order to consider the amendments
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printed in part 4 of the report. Such consideration shall
begin with an additional period of general debate, which
shall be confined to the subject of Haiti and shall not ex-
ceed thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee
on Armed Services.
(d) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 4 of the
report, it shall be in order to consider the amendment
printed in part 5 of the report.
(e) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendment printed in part 5 of the
report, it shall be in order to consider the amendments
printed in part 6 of the report. Such consideration shall
begin with an additional period of general debate, which
shall be confined to the C–17 aircraft and shall not exceed
sixty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Armed Services.
(f) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 6 of the
report, it shall be in order to consider any amendment
printed in part 1 of that report or in part 1 of House
Report 103–509 not previously considered.
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SEC. 4. 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 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution or in part 1 of House Report
103–509 or germane modifications of any such amend-
ment. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this sec-
tion shall be considered as read (except that modifications
shall be reported), shall be debatable for twenty minutes
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and rank-
ing minority member of the Committee on Armed Services,
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. For the purpose of in-
clusion in such amendments en bloc, an amendment print-
ed in the form of a motion to strike may be modified to
the form of a germane perfecting amendment to the text
originally proposed to be stricken. All points of order
against such amendments en bloc are waived. The original
proponent of an amendment included in such amendments
en bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional
Record immediately before the disposition of the amend-
ments en bloc.
SEC. 5. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole
may postpone until a time during further consideration
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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 any amendment made in order by this resolution out
of the order printed, but not sooner than one hour after
the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services or a
designee announces from the floor a request to that effect.
SEC. 6. 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.