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House Calendar No. 38
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 278
[Report No. 109–83] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2360) making appropriations 
for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2006, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 16, 2005
Mr. SESSIONS, 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. 2360) making 
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for 
other purposes.
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. 2360) making appropriations for 
the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year
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ending September 30, 2006, 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. Gen-
eral debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not ex-
ceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be con-
sidered for amendment under the five-minute rule. Points 
of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply 
with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived except as follows: 
beginning with the colon on page 6, line 8, through ‘‘Of-
fice’’ on page 7, line 7; beginning with ‘‘of’’ on page 7, 
line 17, through the semicolon on line 23; beginning with 
the colon on page 8, line 19, through ‘‘108–541’’ on page 
9, line 15; beginning with the colon on page 9, line 23, 
through ‘‘checkpoint’’ on page 10, line 3; beginning with 
the colon on page 10, line 9, through ‘‘Office’’ on page 
11, line 6; beginning with the colon on page 11, line 24, 
through ‘‘Representatives’’ on page 12, line 7; beginning 
with the colon on page 17, line 2, through ‘‘intent’’ on 
line 11; page 17, lines 21 through 24; beginning with the 
colon on page 18, line 5, through ‘‘Act’’ on line 18; begin-
ning with the colon on page 21, line 2, through ‘‘assets’’ 
on page 22, line 12; beginning with the comma on page 
26, line 22, through ‘‘law’’ on line 23; beginning with the
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colon on page 27, line 2, through ‘‘funds’’ on page 27, 
line 13: page 27, line 19, through page 28, line 5; begin-
ning with the colon on page 28, line 15, through ‘‘funds’’ 
on page 29, line 2; beginning with the colon on page 29, 
line 6, through ‘‘2005’’ on page 30, line 8; beginning with 
the comma on page 36, line 19, through ‘‘funds’’ on line 
22; and sections 507, 512, 515, 517, 518, 522, 523, 524, 
525, 527, 529, 530, 532, and 534. Where points of order 
are waived against part of a paragraph or section, points 
of order against a provision in another part of such para-
graph or section may be made only against such provision 
and not against the entire paragraph or section. During 
consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of 
the Committee of the Whole may accord priority in rec-
ognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an 
amendment has caused it to be printed in the portion of 
the Congressional Record designated for that purpose in 
clause 8 of rule XVIII. Amendments so printed shall be 
considered as read. When the committee rises and reports 
the bill back to the House with a recommendation that 
the bill do pass, 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.
House Calendar No. 38
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 278
[Report No. 109–83] 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2360) 
making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2006, and for other purposes. 
MAY 16, 2005
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed