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House Calendar No. 129 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 885 
[Report No. 111–327] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2868) to amend the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 to extend, modify, and recodify the authority 
of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance security and protect 
against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 3, 2009 
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, from the Committee on Rules, reported the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered 
to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2868) to amend 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to extend, modify, 
and recodify the authority of the Secretary of Homeland 
Security to enhance security and protect against acts 
of terrorism against chemical facilities, 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 
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of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 2868) to amend the Homeland Se-
curity Act of 2002 to extend, modify, and recodify the au-
thority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance 
security and protect against acts of terrorism against 
chemical facilities, and for other purposes. The first read-
ing of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order 
against consideration of the bill are waived except those 
arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. General debate 
shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed 90 min-
utes equally divided among and controlled by the chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland 
Security, the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure. After general debate the bill 
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute 
rule. In lieu of the amendments in the nature of a sub-
stitute recommended by the Committees on Homeland Se-
curity and Energy and Commerce 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 the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part 
A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
this resolution. That amendment in the nature of a sub-
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stitute shall be considered as read. All points of order 
against that amendment in the nature of a substitute are 
waived except those arising under clause 10 of rule XXI. 
Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule XVIII, no amendment 
to that amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be 
in order except those printed in part B of the report of 
the Committee on Rules. Each 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 con-
sidered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified 
in the report equally divided and controlled by the pro-
ponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amend-
ment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division 
of the question. All points of order against such amend-
ments are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 
10 of rule XXI. 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. 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. 
SEC. 2. The Chair may entertain a motion that the 
Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security or his designee. The Chair 
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