[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 394 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                        March 26, 1998.
    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. 2515) to address the declining health of forests on Federal lands in 
the United States through a program of recovery and protection consistent with 
the requirements of existing public land management and environmental laws, to 
establish a program to inventory, monitor, and analyze public and private 
forests and their resources, and for other purposes. The first reading of the 
bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the bill and 
shall not exceed one hour 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. In lieu 
of the amendment recommended by the Committee on Agriculture 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 an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text of H.R. 3530. Each section of 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 7 of 
rule XVI or clause 5(a) of rule XXI are waived. 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 15 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.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.