[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 70 (Thursday, June 8, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H4106-H4107]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      LIMITING CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS DURING FURTHER 
  CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4577, DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN 
 SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATION BILL, 2001

  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that during 
consideration of H.R. 4577, pursuant to House Resolution 518, it shall 
be in order only at the appropriate point in the reading of the bill to 
consider each of the amendments printed in the Congressional Record and 
numbered 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, pursuant to clause 8 of 
rule XVIII, if offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), or 
his designee; none of the designated amendments shall be liable to the 
point of order that a portion of the amendment addresses a portion of 
the bill not yet read for amendment; all other points of order against 
each of the designated amendments shall be considered as reserved 
pending completion of the debate thereon; each of the designated 
amendments shall be debatable only for 30 minutes, equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent and an opponent; each of the designated 
amendments shall not be subject to amendment; and each of the 
designated amendments may be withdrawn by its proponent after debate 
thereon.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Isakson). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Illinois?
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I simply would 
note under my reservation, Mr. Speaker, that I have no objection to 
this arrangement, with the understanding that when the House returns to 
this bill, it will not be at a time when Members are still flying back 
to Washington on their airplanes, and that it will not be debated in 
the dead of night.
  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. OBEY. I yield to the gentleman from Illinois.
  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Chairman, I would say to the gentleman that I will be 
flying back on an airplane late Monday afternoon, and hope that we 
would also be able to address this at a civil hour.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Illinois?
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, 
about this time last year we had interfered substantially with a very 
personal matter relative to our ranking member on the Committee on 
Appropriations, so just in the event that that might happen again, and 
I hope it does not, I wanted to wish him a happy anniversary, and 
hopefully he will be able to get to do something proper with his

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wife this year which he was prevented from last year.
  Mr. OBEY. If the gentleman will yield, that will be tomorrow.
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I understand it is tomorrow. Just in case 
something happens between now and then.
  Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.

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