House Calendar No. 78
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 246
[Report No. 103–223]
RESOLUTION
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R.
2401) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
1994 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths
for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
AUGUST 6, 1993
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed
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House Calendar No. 78
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 246
[Report No. 103–223]
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal
year 1994, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 6, 1993
Mr. FROST, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401)
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for mili-
tary activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1994, 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 further
consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to authorize appro-
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priations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
After further general debate, which shall be confined to
the bill and the amendments made in order by this resolu-
tion and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and con-
trolled by the chairman and ranking minority member of
the Committee on Armed Services, the bill shall be consid-
ered 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 Commit-
tee on Armed Services now printed in the bill. The com-
mittee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be
considered as read. All points of order against the commit-
tee amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived.
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 or specified by a subsequent order of the House.
Except as specified in section 2 of this resolution, the
amendments printed in the report shall be considered in
the order printed. Unless otherwise specified in the report,
each amendment may be offered only by the named pro-
ponent or a designee, shall be considered as read, shall
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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, and shall not be sub-
ject to a demand for division of the question in the House
or in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order
against amendments printed in the report are waived.
SEC. 2. 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 fifteen minutes. The chairman of the
Committee of the Whole may recognize for consideration
of amendments printed within a numbered part of the re-
port of the Committee on Rules (other than part 1) out
of the order in which they are printed, but not sooner than
one hour after the chairman of the Committee on Armed
Services or a designee announces from the floor a request
to that effect.
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SEC. 3. (a) After designation of the committee
amendment in the nature of a substitute, an additional
period of general debate shall be confined to funding levels
for ballistic missile defense and shall not exceed forty min-
utes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed
Services. It shall then be in order to consider the amend-
ments printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee
on Rules. If more than one of the amendments printed
in part 1 of the report is adopted, only the last to be
adopted shall be considered as finally adopted and re-
ported to the House.
(b) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 1 of the
report, an additional period of general debate shall be con-
fined to the Trident II (D–5) missile and shall not exceed
thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Armed Services. It shall then be in order to consider the
amendments printed in part 2 of the report.
(c) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 2 of the
report, an additional period of general debate shall be con-
fined to burdensharing and shall not exceed twenty min-
utes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
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ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed
Services. It shall then be in order to consider the amend-
ments printed in part 3 of the report.
(d) After disposition of or postponement of further
proceedings on the amendments printed in part 3 of the
report, an additional period of general debate shall be con-
fined to economic conversion and shall not exceed thirty
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed
Services. It shall then be in order to consider the amend-
ments printed in part 4 of the report.
SEC. 4. After disposition of the amendments printed
in part 4 of the report of the Committee on Rules and
any other amendment on which further proceedings were
earlier postponed, the Committee shall rise without mo-
tion. No further consideration of the bill shall be in order
except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.