[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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REQUEST TO MODIFY AMENDMENT NUMBERED 1 PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT 103-565 
            TO H.R. 4600, EXPEDITED RESCISSIONS ACT OF 1994

  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to modify the 
amendment numbered 1 and printed in House Report 103-565. The 
modification is reduced to writing and available at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the modified 
amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Substitute Offered by Mr. Spratt of South Carolina for 
     Amendment Number 1 Printed In House Report 103-565: Page 10, 
     line 17, insert ``, unless the House has passed the text of 
     the President's bill transmitted with that special message 
     and the Senate passes an amendment in the nature of a 
     substitute reported by its Committee on Appropriations'' 
     before the period.
       Page 11, line 21, insert ``and by striking `1012 and 1013' 
     and inserting `1012, 1013, and 1014''' before the semicolon.
       Page 12, line 1, strike ``(2)'' and insert ``(1)''.
       Page 13, line 7, insert ``or One Hundred Fourth'' before 
     ``Congress''.
       Page 13, line 9, insert ``or One Hundred Fifth'' after 
     ``One Hundred Fourth''.
       Page 13, line 15, strike ``One Hundred Third'' and insert 
     ``previous''.
       Page 14, strike lines 7 through 11 and on line 12, strike 
     ``5'' and insert ``4''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from South Carolina?
  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I reserve 
the right to object to direct some questions to the author of the 
unanimous-consent request, specifically to inquire whether the bill 
pending before the committee this afternoon is identical to the bill 
which passed the House.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, Members are confused about what is taking 
place. Is it not true that the rule on this bill has just passed and 
there is no vote pending and probably will not be for the next hour?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is correct.
  Mr. SOLOMON. I thank the Chair.
  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, I have reserved the right to object to 
inquire of the proponent of the unanimous-consent request if the bill, 
that is, H.R. 4600 pending before the committee is identical to that 
which already passed the House, or which was considered and passed by 
the House last year. I would inquire of the proponent if that is 
correct.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. CLINGER. I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Speaker, the bill that is being offered as the base 
bill is the bill that passed the House, I believe, on April 29, 1993.
  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, further reserving the right to object, I 
would like to then ask the gentleman from South Carolina if he had an 
opportunity to have this consent request considered when the Committee 
on Government Operations marked up this bill or if the Committee on 
Government Operations did consider this bill.
  Mr. SPRATT. The committee itself did not report this bill. The 
gentleman is correct, it did not.
  Mr. CLINGER. Further reserving the right to object, I would inquire 
if this amendment that is proposed now as a unanimous consent request 
was propounded at the time the gentleman appeared before the Committee 
on Rules or did he present this before the Committee on Rules.
  Mr. SPRATT. Part of it was, part of it was not. The upper part of the 
amendment which would have the bill amend page 10, line 17 was 
propounded and is made in order and will be offered as an amendment 
immediately after the bill itself is called in the Committee of the 
Whole. The balance of the amendment would in effect change the bill in 
one simple respect.
  This bill in order to conform to the bill that the House passed in 
April 1993 is identical in all respects, but that means that it applies 
only to the 103d Congress. At that time, a lot of the 103d Congress was 
yet to be conducted. We would like to amend this bill by this amendment 
and by this language so that it would apply to the 103d Congress and 
the 104th Congress as well.
  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, given the fact that the committee of 
jurisdiction, that is, the Committee on Government Operations waived 
its jurisdiction over this bill, this bill has never been considered by 
the Committee on Government Operations, which is the committee of 
jurisdiction, and, therefore, this matter was not really given an 
opportunity to be discussed, debated or amended through the committee 
process. Because of that fact and the fact that the gentleman could 
have offered this request at various stages of this proceeding, I must 
object.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.

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