[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 284 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                      October 30, 1997.
    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. 2493) to establish a mechanism by which the Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior can provide for uniform management of 
livestock grazing on Federal lands. The first reading of the bill shall be 
dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not 
exceed one hour, with thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Resources and thirty 
minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Agriculture. After general debate the bill shall be 
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule for a period not to exceed 
three hours. 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. Before consideration of any other amendment it shall be in order to 
consider the amendment printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
accompanying this resolution, if offered by Representative Smith of Oregon or 
his designee. That amendment shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 
ten minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, and 
shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in 
the Committee of the Whole. If that amendment is adopted, the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, shall be considered as the 
original bill for the purpose of further amendment. During consideration of the 
bill for further amendment, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may 
accord priority in recognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an 
amendment has caused it to be printed in the portion of the Congressional Record 
designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII. Amendments so printed 
shall be considered as read. 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 
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 our without instructions.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.