Title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the competitiveness of the United States, to reform and reauthorize the United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This resolution sets forth the rule for consideration of H.R. 4863 (United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019).
Additionally, the resolution adopts H.Res. 661 (authorizing the Office of General Counsel of the House to retain private counsel, either for pay or pro bono, in support of the ongoing inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House to impeach President Trump) and H.Res. 693 (authorizing the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Director of the Office of the Whistleblower Ombudsman to each appoint and fix the pay of their office's employees).
H.Res. 6 (adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress) is amended to (1) require the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress to submit its final report to the House by October 30, 2020, and (2) terminate the committee at the conclusion of the 116th Congress.
At any time on the legislative day of Thursday, November 21, 2019, it shall be in order to consider in the House a motion to discharge the Committee on Foreign Affairs from consideration of H.Con.Res. 70 (directing the President to remove unauthorized U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities in Syria).

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[H. Res. 695 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                  House Calendar No. 53
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 695

                          [Report No. 116-289]

  Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the 
  competitiveness of the United States, to reform and reauthorize the 
 United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes; and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2019

  Mr. DeSaulnier, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 
resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the 
  competitiveness of the United States, to reform and reauthorize the 
 United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes; and for 
                            other purposes.

    Resolved, That at any time after 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 consideration of the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the 
competitiveness of the United States, to reform and reauthorize the 
United States Export Finance Agency, 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 shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Financial Services. After general debate the bill shall be considered 
for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu of the amendment in 
the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Financial 
Services now printed in the bill, an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-36 shall 
be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the 
Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as the original bill 
for the purpose of further amendment under the five-minute rule and 
shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in 
the bill, as amended, are waived. No further amendment to the bill, as 
amended, shall be in order except those printed in the report of the 
Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each such further 
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, 
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. All points of order against such further amendments are waived. 
At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the 
Committee shall rise and report the bill, as amended, to the House with 
such further amendments as may have been adopted. The previous question 
shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any 
further amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion 
except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
    Sec. 2.  Section 201 of House Resolution 6 is amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (f)(3), strike ``At the conclusion of the 
        first session of the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress'' and 
        insert ``By October 30, 2020''.
            (2) In subsection (g)(1), strike ``on February 1, 2020'' 
        and insert ``at the conclusion of the One Hundred Sixteenth 
        Congress''.
    Sec. 3.  House Resolution 661 is hereby adopted.
    Sec. 4.  House Resolution 693 is hereby adopted.
    Sec. 5. (a) At any time on the legislative day of Thursday, 
November 21, 2019, it shall be in order without intervention of any 
point of order to consider in the House a motion to discharge the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs from further consideration of the 
concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 70) directing the President 
pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United 
States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Syrian Arab Republic that 
have not been authorized by Congress, if offered by Representative 
Gabbard of Hawaii. The motion shall be considered as read. The previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption 
without intervening motion except 20 minutes of debate equally divided 
and controlled by Representative Gabbard of Hawaii and an opponent. The 
question of adoption of the motion may be subject to postponement as 
though under clause 8 of rule XX.
    (b) The provisions of section 7 of the War Powers Resolution (50 
U.S.C. 1546) shall not apply during the remainder of the One Hundred 
Sixteenth Congress to House Concurrent Resolution 70.
                                                  House Calendar No. 53

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 695

                          [Report No. 116-289]

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                               RESOLUTION

  Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4863) to promote the 
  competitiveness of the United States, to reform and reauthorize the 
 United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes; and for 
                            other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           November 13, 2019

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed