[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H. Res. 256 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 House Calendar No. 101
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 256

                          [Report No. 105-283]

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1127) to amend the 
 Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of 
    the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the 
       President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 1997

   Mr. McInnis, 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. 1127) to amend the 
 Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of 
    the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the 
       President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres.

    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. 1127) to amend the 
Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of 
the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the 
President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres. The first 
reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be 
confined to the bill and the amendments made in order by this 
resolution and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled 
by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Resources. 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 Resources now printed in the bill. The committee amendment 
in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 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. 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 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. The Chairman of the Committee of the 
Whole may: (1) postpone until a time during further consideration in 
the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any 
amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time for 
electronic voting on any postponed question that follows another 
electronic vote without intervening business, provided that the minimum 
time for electronic voting on the first in any series of questions 
shall be 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 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.




                                                 House Calendar No. 101

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 256

                          [Report No. 105-283]

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                               RESOLUTION

   Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1127) to amend the 
 Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of 
    the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the 
       President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres.

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                           September 29, 1997

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed