[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H2223-H2224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  MAKING IN ORDER EN BLOC AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 1846, FOREIGN RELATIONS 
             AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2002 AND 2003

  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent during further 
consideration in the Committee of the Whole of H.R. 1646, pursuant to 
H. Res. 138, that it be in order at any time for the chairman of the 
Committee on International Relations or a designee to offer en bloc a 
set of amendments comprising amendments numbered 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26 printed in House 
Report 107-62 or germane modifications of any such amendment; that 
amendments en bloc pursuant to this order be considered as read, except 
that modifications be reported, be debatable for 40 minutes, equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on International

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Relations, or their designees, not be subject to amendment and not be 
subject to a demand for a division of the question in the House or in 
the Committee of the Whole; that the original proponent of an amendment 
included in such amendments en bloc may insert a statement in the 
Congressional Record immediately before the disposition of the 
amendments en bloc.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Illinois?
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I only do so 
in order to ask the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) a question.
  Mr. Speaker, can the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) assure me 
that the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Lantos), the ranking member of the Committee on International 
Relations, having to do with Lebanon is not a part of the en bloc 
amendment, and that that will be considered as a separate amendment?
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LaHOOD. I yield to the gentleman from Illinois.
  Mr. HYDE. Yes, I can give that assurance to the gentleman.
  Mr. LaHOOD. 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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