[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19813]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2765, DISTRICT OF 
                   COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2004

  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 H.R. 2765, which 
shall proceed according to the following order:
  The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.
  All points of order against consideration of the bill 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 Appropriations.
  After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under 
the 5-minute rule.
  Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply 
with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived except section 119.
  The amendment printed in House Report 108-230 may be offered only by 
the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Tom Davis) and only at the appropriate 
point in the reading of the bill, shall be considered as read, shall be 
debatable 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent 
and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the 
Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the amendment are 
waived.
  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. 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, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that House Resolution 334 
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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