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House Calendar No. 16
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 119
[Report No. 103–27]
Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to amend the Public
Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs of the National
Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 9, 1993
Ms. SLAUGHTER 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 the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to amend
the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the
programs of the National Institutes of Health, 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. 4) to amend the Public Health Serv-
ice Act to revise and extend the programs of the National
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Institutes of Health, and for other purposes. The first
reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. Points of order
against consideration of the bill for failure to comply with
clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI are waived. General debate shall
be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equal-
ly divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce. 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 amendment in
the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee
on Energy and Commerce now printed in the bill. The
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall
be considered as read. No amendment to the committee
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order
except those printed in the report of the Committee on
Rules accompanying this resolution. Each amendment
may be offered only in the order printed and by the named
proponent or a designee, 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 a to demand for divi-
sion of the question in the House or in the Committee
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of the Whole. 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 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. After
passage of H.R. 4, it shall be in order to take from the
Speaker’s table the bill S. 1 and to consider the Senate
bill in the House. It shall then be in order to move to
strike all after the enacting clause of the Senate bill and
to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 4 as passed
by the House. If the motion is adopted and the Senate
bill, as amended, is passed, then it shall be in order to
move that the House insist on its amendment to S. 1 and
request a conference with the Senate thereon.