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[H. Res. 376 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 House Calendar No. 149
105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 376

                          [Report No. 105-426]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 856) to provide a process 
            leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 1998

   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. 856) to provide a process 
            leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico.

    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. 856) to provide a process 
leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico. The first reading of 
the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to 
the bill and shall not exceed ninety minutes equally divided and 
controlled by Representative Young of Alaska, Representative Miller of 
California, Representative Solomon of New York, and Representative 
Gutierrez of Illinois or their designees. After general debate the bill 
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu 
of the amendment recommended by the Committee on Resources now printed 
in the bill, 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 printed in the Congressional Record and 
numbered 1 pursuant to clause 6 of rule XXIII. That amendment in the 
nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. Points of order 
against that amendment in the nature of a substitute for failure to 
comply with clause 5(a) or rule XXI are waived.
    Sec. 2. (a) Before consideration of any other amendment, it shall 
be in order to consider the amendment printed in the Congressional 
Record and numbered 3 pursuant to clause 6 of rule XXIII. Consideration 
of that amendment shall be preceded by an additional period of general 
debate, which shall be confined to the subject of that amendment and 
shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by 
Representative Solomon of New York and a Member opposed to that 
amendment.
    (b) Consideration of the amendment printed in the Congressional 
Record and numbered 2 pursuant to clause 6 of rule XXIII shall be 
preceded by an additional period of general debate, which shall be 
confined to the subject of that amendment and shall not exceed thirty 
minutes equally divided and controlled by Representative Serrano of New 
York and a Member opposed to that amendment.
    (c) Amendments specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this 
resolution 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. Consideration of those amendments, and all amendments 
thereto, shall not exceed one hour.
    Sec. 3. During consideration of the bill for 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 or without instructions.
                                     





                                                 House Calendar No. 149

105th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                              H. RES. 376

                          [Report No. 105-426]

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                               RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 856) to provide a process 
            leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico.

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                             March 3, 1998

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed