[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 254 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                  House Calendar No. 88

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 254

                          [Report No. 103-252]

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                               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.

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                           September 22, 1993

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed





                                                  House Calendar No. 88
103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 254

                          [Report No. 103-252]

    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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 1993

    Mr. Frost, 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 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.

    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 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. No further amendment to 
the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order 
except the amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
accompanying this resolution and amendments en bloc described in 
section 3 of this resolution. Pro forma amendments for the purpose of 
debate may be offered only by the chairman or ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Armed Services. Except as specified in sections 2 
through 4 of this resolution, 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 not be subject to 
amendment except as specified in the report, and shall not be subject 
to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the 
Committee of the Whole. Except as otherwise specified in the report, 
each amendment printed in the report shall be debatable for ten minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent. All 
points of order against amendments printed in the report are waived.
    Sec. 2. It shall be in order at any time to consider the amendments 
printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules in the order 
printed. Such consideration shall begin with an additional period of 
general debate, which shall be confined to section 575 of the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute and the amendments printed in 
part 1 of the report and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and 
controlled among the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, the 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services, and 
Representative Skelton of Missouri. 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 reported to the House.
    Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the 
Committee on Armed Services or his designee to offer amendments en bloc 
consisting of amendments printed in part 4 of the report of the 
Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution or in House Report 103-
236 or germane modifications thereof. Amendments en bloc shall be 
considered as read except that modifications shall be reported. 
Amendments en bloc shall be debatable for twenty minutes equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Armed Services, 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. For the purpose of inclusion in 
amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a motion to 
strike may be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amendment to 
the text originally proposed to be stricken. All points of order 
against amendments en bloc are waived. The original proponent of an 
amendment included in amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the 
Congressional Record immediately before the disposition of the 
amendments en bloc.
    Sec. 4. 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 electronic device on 
any postponed question that immediately 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. The chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole may recognize for consideration of an amendment printed in 
parts 2 through 4 of the report of the Committee on Rules out of the 
order printed, but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the 
Committee on Armed Services announces from the floor a request to that 
effect.
    Sec. 5. 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 finally 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. 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.