[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 106 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7907]
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    PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3845, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997

  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that it be in 
order at any time for the Speaker, as though pursuant to clause 1(b) of 
rule XXIII, to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 3845) making appropriations for the government of the District of 
Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against 
the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1997, and for other purposes; that the first reading of the bill be 
dispensed with; that all points of order against the bill and against 
its consideration be waived; that general debate be confined to the 
bill and be limited to 1 hour equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Appropriations; that after general debate the bill be considered for 
amendment under the 5-minute rule; that the Chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole be authorized to postpone until a time during further 
consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded 
vote on any amendment; that the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
be authorized to reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for voting by 
electronic device on any postponed question that immediately follows 
another vote by electronic device without intervening business, 
provided that the time for voting by electronic device on the first in 
any series of questions shall be not less than 15 minutes; that after 
the reading of the final lines of the bill, a motion that the Committee 
of the Whole rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments 
as may have been adopted, if offered by the majority leader or a 
designee, have precedence over a motion to amend; that at the 
conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee 
rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have 
been adopted; and that the previous question 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.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Louisiana?
  There was no objection.

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