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House Calendar No. 106
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 283
[Report No. 106–311]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 417) to amend the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of campaigns
for elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 8, 1999
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. 417) to amend
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform
the financing of campaigns for elections for Federal of-
fice, 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. 417) to amend the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of cam-
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paigns for elections for Federal office, and for other pur-
poses. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.
General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not
exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee
on House Administration. After general debate the bill
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute
rule. The bill shall be considered as read. No amendment
to the bill shall be in order except those printed in the
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this reso-
lution. 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 considered as read, shall
be debatable for the time specified in the report equally
divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent,
and shall not be subject to amendment. All points of order
against the amendments printed in the report are waived
except that the adoption of an amendment in the nature
of a substitute shall constitute the conclusion of consider-
ation of the bill for amendment. The Chairman of the
Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a time
during further consideration in the Committee of the
Whole a request for a recorded vote on any amendment;
and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elec-
tronic voting on any postponed question that follows an-
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other electronic vote without intervening business, pro-
vided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the
first in any series of questions shall be 15 minutes. 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 in-
tervening motion except one motion to recommit with or
without instructions.
House Calendar No. 106
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 283
[Report No. 106–311]
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 417)
to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971 to reform the financing of campaigns for
elections for Federal office, and for other pur-
poses.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1999
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed