[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7889-H7890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    LIMITING AMENDMENTS DURING FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2267, 
DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                   AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998

  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that during further 
consideration of H.R. 2267 pursuant to House Resolution 239:
  (1) No further amendment shall be in order except: amendments printed 
before September 25, 1997, in the portion of the congressional Record 
designated for that purpose in clause 6 of rule XXIII; amendments 
numbered 2 and 3 in part 2 of House Report 105-264; one amendment 
offered by Representative Rogers of Kentucky after consultation with 
Representative Mollohan of West Virginia; one amendment to the 
amendment printed in the Congressional Record and numbered 4; and pro 
forma amendments offered by the chairman or ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations or their designees;
  (2) each amendment shall be considered as read and (other than the 
amendments numbered 2 and 3 in part 2 of House Report 105-264 and the 
amendment numbered 4 and any amendment thereto) shall be debatable for 
10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent;
  (3) the amendment numbered 4 shall be debatable for 60 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, except 
that if an amendment thereto is offered before that debate begins, then 
the amendment and the amendment thereto shall

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be debatable for 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
original proponent and opponent;
  (4) the amendment numbered 4 may be offered only before noon on 
Friday, September 26, 1997, or after 5 p.m. on Monday, September 29, 
1997;
  (5) the amendment numbered 2 in House Report 105-264 may be offered 
only on Tuesday, September 30, 1997;
  (6) the amendment numbered 4 and the amendment offered by 
Representative Rogers may be offered without regard to the stage of the 
reading;
  (7) after the sum of the number of motions to strike out the enacting 
words of the bill (as described in clause 7 of rule XXIII) or that the 
Committee rise offered by Members of the minority party reaches three, 
the chairman of the Committee of the Whole may entertain another such 
motion during further consideration of the bill only if offered by the 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations or the Majority Leader or 
their designee.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Kentucky?
  There was no objection.

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