[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 110 (Wednesday, September 4, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6018]
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MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4727, DAM SAFETY AND 
                          SECURITY ACT OF 2002

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that it be in order 
at any time for the Speaker as though pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
XVIII to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 
4727) to reauthorize the national dam safety program, and for other 
purposes, and the consideration of the bill proceed according to the 
following order:

       The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with;
       points of orders against consideration of the bill for 
     failure to comply with clause 4(a) of rule XIII are waived;
       general debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not 
     exceed 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
     and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.

  After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under 
the 5-minute rule.
  It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose 
of amendment under the 5-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure now printed in the bill. Each section of the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read.
  During consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on the basis 
of whether the Member offering an amendment has caused it to be printed 
in the portion of the Congressional Record designated for that purpose 
in clause 8 of rule XVIII. Amendments so printed shall be considered as 
read.
  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 instruction.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.

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