[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 51 (Thursday, April 30, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H2672-H2673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 1872, COMMUNICATIONS 
              SATELLITE COMPETITION AND PRIVATIZATION ACT

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I want to make a very important statement 
which will concern airplanes taking off this evening, if we can get 
some quiet.
  Mr. Speaker, I have three announcements to make. The first is, we are 
about to take up the rule on the supplemental. We realize that Members 
are trying to catch planes and to leave, and there is not a vote 
expected on the rule. It is mandatory that there be a vote on the 
supplemental under the Rules of the House.
  If we can shorten the debate on the rule and then go directly, 
without a vote, to the supplemental, we should be out of here so that 
most Members will be accommodated.
  Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules will meet next Tuesday, May 5, to 
grant a rule which will limit the amendments to be offered to H.R. 
1872, the Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act.
  The rule may include a provision requiring amendments to be 
preprinted in the amendment section of the Congressional Record.
  Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules is also planning to meet during 
the week of May 4 to grant a rule for consideration of H.R. 3694, and 
that is the Intelligence Authorization bill for Fiscal Year 1999.
  The Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has 
requested a rule which would require that amendments be preprinted in 
the Congressional Record. If this request is granted, amendments to be 
preprinted would need to be signed by the Member and submitted at the 
Speaker's table. The amendments would still need to be consistent with

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House rules but would be given no special protection by being printed.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SOLOMON. I am glad to yield to the gentleman from Florida, 
chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman from New 
York for yielding. As chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, I would like to advise all Members that we hope that the 
authorization bill which has now been marked up will be brought forward 
next week, subject to a rule.
  I would like to advise Members that there is a procedure for any 
Member who would like to look at the material in that legislation to 
contact the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and 
arrangements can be made for Members to review classified material.

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