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[H. Res. 430 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 House Calendar No. 221
104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 430

                          [Report No. 104-570]

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3230) to authorize 
  appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the 
 Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
               fiscal year 1997, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 1996

   Mr. Solomon, 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. 3230) to authorize 
  appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the 
 Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
               fiscal year 1997, 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 consideration of the bill (H.R. 3230) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
fiscal year 1997, 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 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 National 
Security now printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute 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 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.
    (c) Except as specified in section 4 of this resolution, each 
amendment printed in the report of the Committee on Rules shall be 
considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 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 of the Committee on Rules, each amendment printed in the 
report shall be debatable for ten minutes equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent 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 of 
the Committee on Rules or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of 
this resolution are waived.
    (e) Consideration of the first two amendments in part A of the 
report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an additional period 
of general debate, which shall be confined to the subject of 
cooperative threat reduction with the states of the former Soviet Union 
and shall not exceed forty minutes equally divided and controlled by 
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on National 
Security.
    Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the 
Committee on National Security or his designee to offer amendments en 
bloc consisting of amendments printed in part B 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 
minority member of the Committee on National Security 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 germane perfecting amendment to the text 
originally proposed to the 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.
    Sec. 4. (a) 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.
    (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 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.
    (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.
    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 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 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.
                                     





                                                 House Calendar No. 221

104th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                              H. RES. 430

                          [Report No. 104-570]

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                               RESOLUTION

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3230) to authorize 
  appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the 
 Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
               fiscal year 1997, and for other purposes.

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                              May 9, 1996

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed