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House Calendar No. 241 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 827 
[Report No. 108–751] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10) to provide for reform of 
the intelligence community, terrorism prevention and prosecution, border 
security, and international cooperation and coordination, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7 (legislative day, OCTOBER 6), 2004 
Mr. LINDER, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; 
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10) to provide 
for reform of the intelligence community, terrorism pre-
vention and prosecution, border security, and inter-
national cooperation and coordination, and for other pur-
poses. 
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. 10) to provide for reform of the
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intelligence community, terrorism prevention and prosecu-
tion, border security, and international cooperation and 
coordination, and for other purposes. The first reading of 
the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against 
consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall 
be confined to the bill and shall not exceed three hours 
and 40 minutes, with 40 minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; 30 min-
utes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed 
Services; 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on Financial Services; 30 minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Government Reform; 30 minutes equal-
ly divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of the Committee on the Judiciary; 20 min-
utes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Inter-
national Relations; 20 minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and 
20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Select Committee on
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Homeland Security. After general debate the bill shall be 
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In 
lieu of the amendments 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 the 
Rules Committee Print dated October 4, 2004. That 
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be consid-
ered as read. 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 substitute shall be 
in order except those printed in the report of the Com-
mittee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each such 
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 
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. At the conclusion of consid-
eration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise 
and report the bill to the House with such amendments 
as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a