[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H9630-H9631]
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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1270, NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 
                                  1997

  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the 
Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 283 and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 283

         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 consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 1270) to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
     1982. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. 
     Points of order against consideration of the bill for failure 
     to comply with section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974 are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill 
     and shall not exceed eighty minutes, with sixty minutes 
     equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
     minority member of the Committee on Commerce and twenty 
     minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on Resources. After 
     general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment 
     under the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider 
     as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the 
     five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
     recommended by the Committee on Commerce now printed in the 
     bill. The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute 
     shall be considered as read. Points of order against the 
     committee amendment in the nature of a substitute for failure 
     to comply with clause 5(a) of rule XXI or section 306 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 are waived. Notwithstanding 
     clause 5(c) of rule XXIII, no amendment to the committee 
     amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order 
     except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
     accompanying this resolution. Each amendment may be offered 
     only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 
     by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as 
     read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
     equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
     opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
     subject to a demand for division of the question in the House 
     or in the Committee of the Whole. Points of order against the 
     last amendment printed in the report of the Committee on 
     Rules for failure to comply with clause 5(a) of rule XXI or 
     section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 are 
     waived. 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 may entertain another such motion on that 
     day

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     only if offered by the majority leader or his 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 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. 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 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. After passage of H.R. 1270, it shall be in order to 
     take from the Speaker's table the bill, S. 104, and to 
     consider the Senate bill in the House. Points of order 
     against consideration of the Senate bill for failure to 
     comply with section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974 are waived. It shall be in order to move to strike all 
     after the enacting clause of the Senate bill and to insert in 
     lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 1270 as passed by the 
     House. If the motion is adopted and the Senate bill, as 
     amended, is passed, then it shall be in order to move that 
     the House insist on its amendment to S. 104 and request a 
     conference with the Senate thereon.

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