[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 PROVIDING FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2160, AGRICULTURE, RURAL 
    DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
                        APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998

  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the 
Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 193 and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 193

       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 the further 
     consideration of the bill (H.R. 2160) making appropriations 
     for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
     Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. 
     Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to 
     comply with clause 2 or 6 of rule XXI are waived except as 
     follows: page 56, line 18, through line 24; and page 68, line 
     12, through line 16. Where points of order are waived against 
     part of a paragraph, points of order against a provision in 
     another part of such paragraph may be made only against such 
     provision and not against the entire paragraph. No further 
     amendment shall be in order except amendments printed before 
     July 22, 1997, in the portion of the Congressional Record 
     designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII, the 
     amendments printed in the Congressional Record and numbered 
     21, 22, and 23 pursuant to clause 6 of rule XXIII, and the 
     amendment by Representative Obey of Wisconsin pending when 
     the Committee of the Whole rose on July 22, 1997. Each 
     amendment shall be considered as read and shall be debatable 
     for ten minutes (except as otherwise provided in section 2 of 
     this resolution) equally divided and controlled by the 
     proponent and an opponent. 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. After a motion that the Committee 
     rise has been rejected on a day, the Chairman of the 
     Committee of the Whole may entertain another such motion on 
     that day only if offered by the Chairman of the Committee on 
     Appropriations or the majority leader or their designee. 
     After a motion to strike out the enacting words of the bill 
     (as described in clause 7 of rule XXIII) has been rejected, 
     the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may not entertain 
     another such motion during further consideration of the bill. 
     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. 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.
       Sec. 2. The time for debate on the following amendments 
     shall be thirty minutes:
       (1) The amendment by Representative Obey of Wisconsin 
     pending when the Committee of the Whole rose on July 22, 
     1997, which shall be debatable for thirty minutes 
     notwithstanding the time consumed on the amendment on July 
     22, 1997;
       (2) the amendment numbered 17;
       (3) the amendment numbered 3; and
       (4) the amendment numbered 21.

                          ____________________