[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1326]
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 PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 729, THE EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY 
                                  ACT

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the bill, H.R. 
729, be considered in the following manner:
  The Speaker at any time may declare the House resolved into the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 729) to control crime by a more 
effective death penalty, and that the first reading of the bill shall 
be dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of the 
bill shall be waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and 
shall not exceed 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. After 
general debate, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 5 
minute rule for a period not to exceed 6 hours. It shall be in order to 
consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the 5-
minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute ordered 
reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, and all points of order 
against the substitute shall be waived. The committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute shall be considered as having been read. 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 considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto 
to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  

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