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House Calendar No. 193
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 384
[Report No. 104–483]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2202) to amend the Immigration
and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to
the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel,
by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud,
by reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving
the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other
measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal
entries into the United States, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 14, 1996
Mr. DREIER, 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. 2202) to amend
the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deter-
rence of illegal immigration to the United States by
increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by
increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for docu-
ment fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law
and procedures, by improving the verification system for
eligibility for employment, and through other measures,
to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate
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legal entries into the United States, 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 consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 2202) to amend the Immigration
and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immi-
gration to the United States by increasing border patrol
and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for
alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming ex-
clusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving
the verification system for eligibility for employment, and
through other measures, to reform the legal immigration
system and facilitate legal entries into the United States,
and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall
be dispensed with. All points of order against consider-
ation of the bill are waived except those arising under sec-
tion 425(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not
exceed two hours to be equally divided and controlled by
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary. After general debate the bill shall
be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule.
It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the
purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the
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amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by
the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill,
modified by the amendment printed in part 1 of the report
of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution.
That amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be
considered as read. No other amendment shall be in order
except the amendments printed in part 2 of the report
of the Committee on Rules and amendments en bloc de-
scribed in section 2 of this resolution. Each amendment
printed in part 2 of the report may be considered only
in the order printed, may be offered only by a Member
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 except as specified in
the report, and shall not be subject to a demand for divi-
sion of the question in the House or in the Committee
of the Whole. All points of order against amendments
made in order by this resolution are waived except those
arising under section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole
may postpone until a time during further consideration
in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded
vote on any amendment. The chairman of the Committee
of the Whole may reduce to not less than five minutes
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the time for voting by electronic device on any postponed
question that immediately follows another vote by elec-
tronic device without intervening business, provided that
the time for voting by electronic device on the first in any
series of questions shall be not less than fifteen 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.
SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chair-
man of the Committee on the Judiciary or a designee to
offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments print-
ed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying
this resolution that were not earlier disposed of or ger-
mane modifications of any such amendments. Amend-
ments en block offered pursuant to this section shall be
considered as read (except that modifications shall be re-
ported), shall be debatable for twenty minutes equally di-
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vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor-
ity member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their
designees, 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. For the
purpose of inclusion in such amendments en bloc, an
amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike may
be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amend-
ment to the text originally proposed to be stricken. The
original proponent of an amendment included in such
amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Con-
gressional Record immediately before the disposition of
the amendments en bloc.