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House Calendar No. 74 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 552 
[Report No. 111–158] 
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2847) making appropria-
tions for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 17 (legislative day, JUNE 16), 2009 
Ms. SLAUGHTER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2847) 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other 
purposes. 
Resolved, That during further consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 2847) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and 
for other purposes, no further general debate shall be in 
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order. Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule XVIII and House 
Resolution 544, and except as provided in section 2, no 
further amendment shall be in order except: (1) amend-
ments numbered 3, 6, 19, 22, 25, 31, 35, 41, 59, 60, 62, 
63, 69, 71, 93, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 111, 114, and 118 
printed in the Congressional Record of June 15, 2009, 
pursuant to clause 8 of rule XVIII, which may be offered 
only by the Member who submitted it for printing or a 
designee, and (2) not to exceed 10 of the following amend-
ments if offered by the ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations or his designee: amend-
ments numbered 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 
86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108 print-
ed in the Congressional Record of June 15, 2009, pursu-
ant to clause 8 of rule XVIII. Each amendment listed in 
this section shall be considered as read, shall be debatable 
for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the pro-
ponent and an opponent, and shall not be subject to a 
demand for division of the question in the House or in 
the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against 
such amendments are waived except that an amendment 
may be offered only at the appropriate point in the read-
ing. 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 
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adopted. The previous question shall be considered as or-
dered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage 
without intervening motion except one motion to recommit 
with or without instructions. 
SEC. 2. The chair and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations or their designees each 
may offer one pro forma amendment to the bill for the 
purpose of debate. Such amendment may be repeated, but 
only after consideration of an amendment listed in the 
first section of this resolution. 
SEC. 3. The Chair may entertain a motion that the 
Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations or his designee. The Chair may 
not entertain a motion to strike out the enacting words 
of the bill (as described in clause 9 of rule XVIII). 
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House Calendar No. 74 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 552 
[Report No. 111–158] 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 
2847) making appropriations for the Depart-
ments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 17 (legislative day, JUNE 16), 2009 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed 
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