[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3439, RADIO 
                 BROADCASTING PRESERVATION ACT OF 2000

  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. 
3439) to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from 
establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio 
stations and that consideration of the bill proceed according to the 
following order: (1) the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed 
with; (2) 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 Commerce; (3) the amendment 
in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Commerce 
now printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment under the 5-minute rule and shall be considered as 
read; (4) points of order against the committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute for failure to comply with clause 7 of rule XVI are 
waived; (5) 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; (6) 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 5 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 15 minutes; (7) 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; (8) 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; and 
that House Resolution 472 be laid on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.

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