[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 384 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                        March 19, 1996.
    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 consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 2202) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve 
deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border 
patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien smuggling 
and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law and 
procedures, by improving the verification system for eligibility for employment, 
and through other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and 
facilitate legal entries into the United States, 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 except those arising under section 425(a) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. General debate shall be confined to the 
bill and shall not exceed two hours to be equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. After 
general debate the bill shall be considered 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 Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill, modified 
by the amendment printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules 
accompanying this resolution. That amendment in the nature of a substitute shall 
be considered as read. No other amendment shall be in order except the 
amendments printed in part 2 of the report of the Committee on Rules and 
amendments en bloc described in section 2 of this resolution. Each amendment 
printed in part 2 of the report may be considered only in the order printed, 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 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. All points of order against amendments made in order by this resolution 
are waived except those arising under section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974. 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. 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. 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 
amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order as original text. 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.
    Sec. 2. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the Committee 
on the Judiciary or a designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of 
amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 
resolution that were not earlier disposed of or germane modifications of any 
such amendments. 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 minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their designees, 
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 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 
amendment 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 Congressional Record immediately before the disposition of the amendments en 
bloc.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.