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House Calendar No. 148
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 401
[Report No. 103–474]
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 4092) to control and
prevent crime.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 12, 1994
Mr. DERRICK, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
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 further
consideration of the bill (H.R. 4092) to control and pre-
vent crime. No further general debate shall be in order.
The bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-
minute rule and shall be considered as read. Except as
provided in section 2 of this resolution, no amendment
shall be in order except those printed in the report of the
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Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each
amendment printed in the report may be offered only in
the order printed, may be offered only by a Member des-
ignated 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 the amendments
printed in the report are waived. If more than one of the
following amendments printed in part 1 of the report re-
lating to habeas corpus is adopted, only the last to be
adopted shall be considered as finally adopted and re-
ported to the House: by Representative Hyde of Illinois;
and by Representative Derrick of South Carolina.
SEC. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chair-
man of the Committee on the Judiciary or his designee
to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments
printed in part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules
or germane modifications of any such amendment.
Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall
be considered as read (except that modifications shall be
reported), shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally di-
vided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minor-
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ity member of the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 amendment to the text origi-
nally proposed to be stricken. All points of order against
such amendments en bloc are waived. The original pro-
ponent of an amendment included in such amendments en
bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record
immediately before the disposition of the amendments en
bloc.
SEC. 3. 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 made in order by this resolution.
The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce
to not less than five minutes the time for voting by elec-
tronic device on any postponed question that immediately
follows another vote by electronic device without interven-
ing business, provided that the time for voting by elec-
tronic device on the first in any series of questions shall
be not less than 15 minutes.
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SEC. 4. 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
finally adopted. 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.
SEC. 5. After passage of H.R. 4092, it shall be in
order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill H.R. 3355,
with a Senate amendment thereto, and to consider the
Senate amendment in the House. It shall be in order to
move to concur in the Senate amendment with an amend-
ment inserting the text of H.R. 4092 as passed by the
House in lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by
the Senate. All points of order against that motion are
waived. If the motion is adopted, then it shall be in order
to move that the House insist on its amendments to the
Senate amendment to H.R. 3355 and request a conference
with the Senate thereon.