House Calendar No. 56
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 164
[Report No. 104–136]
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1530)
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996
for military activities of the Department of De-
fense, to prescribe military personnel strengths
for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes.
JUNE 8, 1995
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed
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House Calendar No. 56
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 164
[Report No. 104–136]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1530) to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 8, 1995
Mr. SOLOMON, 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. 1530) to author-
ize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activi-
ties of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, 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. 1530) to authorize appropriations
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for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths
for fiscal year 1996, 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. General
debate shall be confined to the bill and the amendments
made in order by this resolution and shall not exceed two
hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
ranking minority member of the Committee on National
Security. After general debate the bill shall be considered
for amendment under the five-minute rule.
SEC. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an origi-
nal bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-
minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute
recommended by the Committee on National Security now
printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the na-
ture of a substitute, as modified by striking section 807,
and by an amendment printed in part 3 of the report of
the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution,
shall be considered as read. All points of order against
the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute
are waived.
(b) No amendment to the committee amendment in
the nature of a substitute, as modified, shall be in order
except the amendments printed in the report of the Com-
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mittee on Rules accompanying this resolution, amend-
ments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution, and
the amendments described in section 4 of this resolution.
(c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution,
each amendment printed in the report shall be considered
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, and shall not be subject to a demand for
division of the question in the House or in the Committee
of the Whole. Unless otherwise specified in the report,
each amendment printed in the report shall be debatable
for ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the pro-
ponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to
amendment (except that the chairman or ranking minority
member of the Committee on National Security each may
offer one pro forma amendment for the purpose of further
debate on any pending amendment).
(d) All points of order against amendments printed
in the report, amendments en bloc described in section 3
of this resolution, and amendments described in section
4 of this resolution, are waived.
(e)(1) Consideration of amendments printed in sub-
part A of part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution shall begin with an addi-
tional period of general debate, which shall be confined
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to the subject of cooperative threat reduction with the
states of the former Soviet Union and shall not exceed
thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on
National Security.
(2) Consideration of amendments printed in subpart
D of part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules ac-
companying this resolution shall begin with an additional
period of general debate, which shall be confined to the
subject of ballistic missile defense and shall not exceed
sixty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on
National Security.
SEC. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chair-
man of the Committee on National Security or his des-
ignee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amend-
ments printed in part 2 of the report of the Committee
on Rules accompanying this resolution not earlier disposed
of 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 twenty minutes equally
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of the Committee on National Security or
their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and
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shall not be subject to a demand for division of the ques-
tion 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 amend-
ment to the text originally proposed to be stricken. The
original proponent of an amendment included in such
amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the Con-
gressional Record immediately before the disposition of
the amendments en bloc.
SEC. 4. (a) It shall be in order for Representative
Clinger of Pennsylvania, with the concurrence of Rep-
resentative Collins of Illinois, to offer the amendment
numbered 1 in subpart C of part 1 of the report of the
Committee on Rules in a modified form that is germane
to the form printed in the report.
(b) After disposition of all other amendments, it shall
be in order at any time for the chairman of the Committee
on National Security or his designee to offer an amend-
ment not printed in the report of the Committee on Rules
accompanying this resolution to reconcile spending levels
reflected in the bill with the corresponding level reflected
in a conference report to accompany a concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget for fiscal year 1996. The amendment
shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for ten min-
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utes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
ranking minority member of the Committee on National
Security or their designees, shall not be subject to amend-
ment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division
of the question in the House or in the Committee of the
Whole.
SEC. 5. (a) The chairman of the Committee of the
Whole may postpone until a time during further consider-
ation in the Committee of the Whole a request for a
recorded vote on any amendment made in order by this
resolution.
(b) The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may
reduce to not less than five minutes the time for voting
by electronic device on any postponed question that imme-
diately follows another vote by electronic device without
intervening business, provided that the time for voting by
electronic device on the first in any series of questions
shall be not less than fifteen minutes.
(c) The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may
recognize for consideration of any amendment made in
order by this resolution out of the order printed but not
sooner than one hour after the chairman of the Committee
on National Security or a designee announces from the
floor a request to that effect.
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SEC. 6. 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 Committee of
the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in
the nature of a substitute, as modified. The previous ques-
tion shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amend-
ments thereto to final passage without intervening motion
except one motion to recommit with or without instruc-
tions.